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JoshTriplettyesterday at 10:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

Pre-1.0. Rust removed the green-threads runtime prior to stabilization.

I personally think this was one of the most important changes Rust made; without it, Rust would have been interesting but would not have been able to compete directly with C and C++ for systems programming.


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satvikpendemyesterday at 11:09 PM

Yep, it would've just been another OCaml with C style syntax.

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irishcoffeetoday at 12:22 AM

> without it, Rust would have been interesting

Thanks for articulating what I’ve failed to do for a decade.