Comment by JoshTriplett
9 hours ago
Pre-1.0. Rust removed the green-threads runtime prior to stabilization.
I personally think this was one of the most important changes Rust made; without it, Rust would have been interesting but would not have been able to compete directly with C and C++ for systems programming.
Yep, it would've just been another OCaml with C style syntax.
Or another Go, with a mandatory runtime, which would have been a useful language but not something you'd add to a production OS kernel or firmware or similar.
I wonder if we'd have eventually saw something like Nim, which has optional green thread concurrency and a garbage collector. Rust does not have these currently right? At least I haven't heard of them.
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> without it, Rust would have been interesting
Thanks for articulating what I’ve failed to do for a decade.