[korpiq]

This feels welcome to me. I tend to think a language needs multiple independent implementations that only share the same source language spec, in order to really tear a clear spec apart from the quirks of any particular implementation.

I find Rust (the spec, though also the implemenration) quite safe and practical (a balance). It deserves some independent implementations to secure a long and stable future.

On the other hand, I want to use it on non-ARM embedded platforms, where current cross-compilation through C produces unusably big binaries. I dream this might increase hope for that, too, eventually.

[thesuperbigfrog]

>> I find Rust (the spec, though also the implemenration) quite safe and practical (a balance). It deserves some independent implementations to secure a long and stable future.

Where is the Rust spec? Unless something happened really quickly that I was not aware of there is only the implementation.

[steveklabnik]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/ is the closest thing we have. It is not yet complete.

[thesuperbigfrog]

Thank you! I look forward to the day when there is a spec, but I was surprised to see it mentioned and was wondering if I missed something big.