[the_duke]

Rust has managed just fine to remain mostly backwards compatible since 1.0 , while still allowing for evolution of the language through editions.

This puts much more work on the compiler development side, but it's a great boon for the ecosystem.

To be fair, zig is pre 1.0, but Zig is also already 8 years old. Rust turned 1.0 at ~ 5 years, I think.

[melodyogonna]

Rust started in 2006 and reached v1 in 2015, that's 9 years.

[kibwen]

Rust existed nearly entirely on paper until 2009, when Mozilla started funding researchers to work on it full-time. It wasn't announced in any sort of official capacity until 2010, and had no official numbered release until 2012. It was less than three and a half years between 0.1 and 1.0, and in that time, hard as it is to believe, it underwent more overall change than Zig has.