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Written by lambdageek on 2025-01-09 at 01:39

Why is MSRV a thing? What are the scenarios where someone might stay on an old toolchain and not bump to the latest stable rust? Naively I expected language editions to solve problems that would prevent always using the latest stable.

[#]rust #newbie #rustlang

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Written by lambdageek on 2025-01-09 at 01:42

Is it for people on oddball tier2/3 targets that might not be working in every latest compiler version?

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Written by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-09 at 04:27

@lambdageek No, I use "oddball tier 2 targets" daily and have never had an issue. T2 just means "may break on a commit here or there" but they'd only ship a broken release in the rarest of circumstances. A few use cases...

1. You use a package manager; good luck getting anything recent with most Linux distros.

2. "Enterprise" / highly regulated scenarios where software has to get certified or something.

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