[nixpulvis]

>> Rust projects decay

> The text doesn't match the headline here; Rust takes backwards compatibility very seriously, and rust code I wrote in 2016 against Rust 1.10 still compiles with Rust 1.72 in 2023.

This hasn’t been my experience. Though it’s often not large changes that are needed. The bigger problem in my book is the crate ecosystem, which is riddled with abandonware. Though this issue plagues most all languages.

[icholy]

For all the praise cargo gets, the lack of namespaces seems like a pretty huge oversight :/

[necubi]

This is endlessly debated within the community (e.g., https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/blog-post-no-namespaces-in...), and there's no consensus on whether namespaces would be an improvement

[littlestymaar]

There's no consensus mostly because namespace proponent, despite all the noise they make, haven't been able to articulate a constructed argument about what namespace is actually bringing to the table.

For instance, most of them bring typosquatting as a problem that namespaces solve, yet they completely ignore namespace typosquatting: for instance instead of typosquatting `ripgrep` with `rigrep`, you'd typosquat `burntsushi/ripgrep` with `bunrtsushi/ripgrep`…