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		publicola1990 on Sept 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brooks, Wirth and Go How does Rust compare in that regard? Will 3 year old non-trivial rust code build/run without issues?

stouset on Sept 2, 2021 [–]

Yes, Rust releases have (arguably) kept better backwards compatibility than Go releases have. There have been IIRC a few Go releases that broke code in practice despite it being considered a non-breaking change.

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