Comment by opengears
2 years ago
This blog post is from 2019 (with updates from 2020). I guess Rust has matured since then (and especially the RISCV support in Rust). Does anyone have more insight into this?
2 years ago
This blog post is from 2019 (with updates from 2020). I guess Rust has matured since then (and especially the RISCV support in Rust). Does anyone have more insight into this?
Some more clicking got me to updates from mid 2022: https://blog.stephenmarz.com/
Nothing for a year
Since this is a from-scratch implementation, there's not much support from the language side to begin with. Except for some build system details that may have been made less annoying, I don't think much has changed.
Ehhhh yes and no, you're mostly correct. 2021 is currently the shelf year for the latest edition of Rust.
However rust versions everything, so even if you have a new compiler that removed support for something, you can still pull the old toolchains and build legacy codebases (like this one).
My Rust OS not only pins the edition (which is the default anyway with `cargo init`) but also uses a toolchain file to pin the date of the nightly build I want contributors to build with.
Rust tooling is really fantastic in this regard.
> However rust versions everything.
I chuckled a little, after all, GCC isn't versioned and there's no companies out there still using GCC 4 or whatever kind of suffering they prefer.
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