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TylerE on July 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Impressions of Go

The problem is that historically changing the stdlib in a significant way rarely happens once a language has moved out of the lab, do to the sheer amount of breakage that would ensue.

pcwalton on July 23, 2013 [–]

That is not a worry for Rust. At this stage we make breaking changes to the standard library nearly every day. Sometimes on an hourly basis.

Revamping I/O is very high on the list. Brian Anderson et al are working on it as we speak.

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