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		FpUser on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust in 2022 >"The problem with adding this is that in 10-20 years it's not so useful anymore. Then you'd have:" Perfect reason for not writing any software. None would work for 20 years without maintenance (there are some exceptions of course).

mplanchard on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

No, it’s the perfect reason for not pulling software into the standard library, which has strong backwards compatibility guarantees and cannot be as cavalier about changing interfaces and deprecations as external crates.

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