>> PS: I really like the Rust language, but the Rust ecosystem's insistence >> on living on the bleeding edge is really getting under my skin. > SSE2 was introduced in the year 2000. Can't really argue that this > is "bleeding edge".
That was a side comment. The SSE2 issue comes from LLVM rather than from Rust, anyway. But the Rust ecosystem (like Go's and JS's) does make it difficult to maintain backward compatibility. Stefan