The discussion highlights significant new features in Rust 1.100, such as the stabilized never type and unused dependency warnings, while sparking a substantive debate over whether the language's lack of a stable ABI is a necessary trade-off for its generic system or an impediment to library distribution. Participants clash between those viewing the current source-only model as sufficient and those arguing that a native stable ABI is essential for practical binary interoperability.
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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4 sourcesESestebank·Dec 12, 2025
> I can't even get Rust to work here on my slightly older Mac system.
Could you elaborate on that? macOS Sierra (released on 2016) on Intel macs is supported[1][2], which should allow for Macs from late 2009 onward to work. The Intel Mac build is no longer Tier 1 because the project no longer has access to CI machines for them, and 32-bit cross building is hampered by Xcode 14 not shipping the corresponding SDK[3].
1: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/556
2: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/app...
3: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118083
In The Tor Project is switching to RustAn interesting bit of history: for a long time Rust maintained first party support for Windows XP, after other parts of ecosystem generally gave up. This was because Firefox needed it.
https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/378 (major change proposal to drop Windows XP support) notes this history and links to other relevant pages.
In Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versionsRust is investigating using sandboxed WASM for proc macros, but it'll be some time before there's any movement there: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/876
In How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"m68k-unknown-linux-gnu" was merged as a Tier-3 target for Rust, wasn't it? [0]
[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/458
In Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms