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by dhruvrajvanshi 878 days ago
> "We're ABI stable" claims in C and C++ are "We daren't change anything or stuff breaks" which isn't so much an ABI as it is paralysis and Rust is confident it doesn't want to do that.

For C++, yes sure, but I thought C usually has a pretty well specified ABI on most platforms, no?

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I think it's true for common enough platforms, but C is available in too many platforms so I'm not sure it's generally true.