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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: Madhu <enometh@meer.net>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:29:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilc2lbny.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66738b9275126f75a710@heytings.org> (Gregory Heytings's message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:09:55 +0000")

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> Your claim that Rust is not backward compatible being wrong, you now

It's not.  The Linux kernel, for example, requires a ``nightly'' Rust
compiler for its Rust code.  To add insult to injury, that code does not
compile with GCC.

> suggest that it should be forward compatible as well?  It isn't, of
> course, otherwise the language would be frozen.

We are debating how _stable_ the language is, and backwards
compatibility is just one aspect.

Standard C is remarkably stable; embarassments such as the soon-to-be
included ``generic'' string functions aside, what has compiled in the
future will likely compile in the fast as well, and vice versa.

I think that the same could not be said for any other widely available
language.

> And why would compiling recent programs with old versions of the
> compiler be useful, when all you have to do is to install a more
> recent version of the compiler?

Because there are systems which are not supported by newer compilers.
Each new compiler is also slower than previous ones, and uses more
memory.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-05  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-21 10:21 [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs BTuin
2023-05-21 12:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-21 14:56   ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-21 17:24 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-21 19:33   ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-21 19:58     ` Jim Porter
2023-05-21 21:36       ` John Yates
2023-05-22 16:35       ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-23  0:44         ` Po Lu
2023-05-23 21:10           ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-23 21:17             ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-05-24  6:09             ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2023-05-24 21:35               ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-24 23:32                 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-25  0:11                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25  4:00                   ` tomas
2023-05-25  6:53                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25  7:48                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25  9:33                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 11:28                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 11:53                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 13:09                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 14:36                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 16:20                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-25 16:40                                     ` tomas
2023-05-25 19:23                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-26  0:57                                       ` Po Lu
2023-05-27  0:24                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-26  5:57                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-26 21:16                                       ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27  0:25                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-28 10:20                                           ` Madhu
2023-05-28 12:38                                             ` Po Lu
2023-05-29 22:03                                               ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-29 22:42                                                 ` Po Lu
2023-05-30  7:26                                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 12:54                                                     ` Po Lu
2023-05-30 15:08                                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 16:50                                                         ` chad
2023-05-31  1:14                                                         ` Po Lu
2023-06-05  1:09                                                           ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05  5:29                                                             ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-06-05  8:17                                                               ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05  9:06                                                                 ` Po Lu
2023-06-17  3:34                                                                   ` Yilkal Argaw
2023-05-27 14:55                                         ` Brian Cully via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-26  0:54                                   ` Po Lu
2023-05-26 21:16                                   ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27  0:26                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-27  2:37                                       ` Ruijie Yu via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-28 21:48                                       ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 22:05                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 13:01                                           ` Po Lu
2023-05-30 15:08                                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-31  1:16                                               ` Po Lu
2023-06-02 21:38                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2023-06-05  1:10                                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05  5:19                                                   ` Po Lu
2023-06-05  8:17                                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2023-06-05  9:00                                                       ` Po Lu
2023-05-31 22:28                                               ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-30 21:52                                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-28 21:48                                       ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-25 13:16                         ` chad
2023-05-25 19:38                           ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-26 21:32                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27  9:45                             ` Yuri Khan
2023-05-28 21:48                               ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29  8:03                                 ` Yuri Khan
2023-05-30 21:47                                   ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-25  7:55                       ` tomas
2023-05-25  8:44                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 10:38                       ` Po Lu
2023-05-25 11:44                         ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-25 12:02                           ` Po Lu
2023-05-25 12:08                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-26  0:52                               ` Po Lu
2023-05-26 21:16                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-27  0:26                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-28 21:47                               ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 22:05                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-05-30 13:03                                   ` Po Lu
2023-05-31 22:29                                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-26 22:59                       ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-05-28 21:22                         ` Björn Bidar
2023-05-29 22:38                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-29 22:38                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-30  4:28                             ` tomas
2023-05-25 10:42             ` Po Lu
2023-05-25 19:36               ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-22 22:00 ` Richard Stallman
2023-05-23  8:36   ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-23 11:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-23 12:13       ` Po Lu
2023-05-23 18:46       ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-24  6:32         ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-24 20:09           ` Augustin Chéneau (BTuin)
2023-05-24  3:34     ` David Masterson
2023-05-24 10:26       ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-28 21:17     ` Björn Bidar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-27  7:12 [PROPOSAL] " Payas Relekar

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