[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[Dan Cross]

In article <624cdd77$0$704$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 4/5/2022 8:21 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <t2ilf1$18mj$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
>> chris  <chris-nospam at tridac.net> wrote:
>>> I think the point is that languages take time to evolve and the path
>>> can be unstable until there is enough critical mass to produce a fully
>>> documented and standard version. I would expect that to take a decade
>>> or more. No good for serious work without that professionalism. Toy
>>> and experimental otherwise.
>> 
>> Java doesn't have a "standard" in the sense described here, but
>> much as I don't care for it as a language I'd be hard pressed to
>> describe it as a "toy" or "no good for serious work."
>
>Java is not ISO/ANSI/ECMA standardized.
>
>But the JCP process is really very similar to ISO/ANSI/ECMA.

Sounds kind of like the Rust RFC process, but some posters here
seem to have suggested that without a document produced under
the auspicies of a relevant standards body, a language is not
viable for serious work.

	- Dan C.