> I wish I could say the same for years of projects written in Rust and Haskell
Back in 2021 I ported a small C program I wrote into Rust as part of learning the language. Since I was inexperienced even though it's small and Unix specific I added about two dozen dependencies including transitively a Windows API dependency via somebody's terminal lib.
So, that's a 2018 Edition Rust program, untouched since November 2021.
The binary of course still runs just the same as ever, I've used it a few times over the intervening years - but we'll take that as read. Lets go into the source code and build it again today, how much work will it be to get Rust source code working years later with a brand new Rust toolchain and different OS?
It just works. Not like "Well, I had to run some updates and modernisations" it just works.
Back in 2021 I ported a small C program I wrote into Rust as part of learning the language. Since I was inexperienced even though it's small and Unix specific I added about two dozen dependencies including transitively a Windows API dependency via somebody's terminal lib.
So, that's a 2018 Edition Rust program, untouched since November 2021.
The binary of course still runs just the same as ever, I've used it a few times over the intervening years - but we'll take that as read. Lets go into the source code and build it again today, how much work will it be to get Rust source code working years later with a brand new Rust toolchain and different OS?
It just works. Not like "Well, I had to run some updates and modernisations" it just works.