Comment by Ntrails

Here is what I learned the hard way: the request sounds reasonable. And that doesn’t matter (sucks, I know.)

Here is the only thing that matters in the end (I learned this an even harder way. I really worked like the L4R people approach this and was bitten by counter-examples left, right, and center): The Linux Kernel has to work. This is even more important than knowing why it works. There is gray area and you only move forward by rejecting anything that doesn’t have at least ten years of this kind of backwards compatible commitment. All of it. Wholesale. (And yes, this blatantly and callously disregards many gods efforts sounding like the tenuous and entitled claim "not good enough".)

But it’s the only thing that has a good chance of working.

Saying that gravity is a thing is not the same attitude as liking that everyone is subject to gravity. But hoping that gravity just goes away this once is wishful thinking of the least productive kind.

Rust is not "sufficiently committed" to backwards compatibility. Firstly, too young to know for sure and the burden is solely on "the rust community" here. (Yes, that sucks. Been there.)

Secondly, there were changes (other posters mentioned "Drop") and how cargo is treated that counter indicate this.

Rust can prove all the haters wrong. They will then be even more revered that Linux and Debian. But they have to prove this. That is a time consuming slog. With destructive friction all the way.

This is the way.