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itemprop="name">Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)</td></tr><tr><td class="lp">From</td><td class="rp" itemprop="author">comex <></td></tr><tr><td class="lp">Date</td><td class="rp" itemprop="datePublished">Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:42:22 -0800</td></tr></table></td><td></td></tr></table><pre itemprop="articleBody">On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:44鈥疨M, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:<br />> <br />> including an upstream language<br />> community which refuses to make any kind of backwards compatibility<br />> guarantees, and which is *actively* hostile to a second Rust compiler<br />> implementation (I suspect because it might limit their ability to make<br />> arbitrary backwards-incompatble language changes).<br /><br />Rust does, of course, make all sorts of backward compatibility guarantees for stabilized features.<br /><br />The list of unstable features used by Rust for Linux is still long, but getting shorter.<br /><br /><a 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