alt Hacker News> You can still use the same old toolchain.
If you keep your old computer around, yes.
The good news is that C seems also contaminated with "move fast, break things " phylosophy. The modern code writer is not able to make things that last more than a couple of months.
Previous versions of the Rust compiler don't just up and disappear just because I moved to a new workstation or setup a new build server. I understand it's not optimal to rely on a download always being available, but even then, that is not at all exclusive to any single language. Why would earlier versions of Rust be susceptible to this but not something like gcc? I don't see it.