Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "why rust libraries may never exist." video.

@mieszkomazurek3033 I keep telling people that, but it's a lost cause because no one learns.
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@torarinvik4920 Makes me wish the Digital Mars C++ compiler had a Linux version, because it had better error messages than every other compiler combined for STL errors. I don't guess it ever will at this point since Walter Bright is more focused on D development these days.
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I had no idea that Rust was this dysfunctional, but that explains so much of what I've experienced with it. Maybe someone working on it will see this and take this idea, that isn't originally mine but is a good one, which is to use a bytecode format for intermediate files. Libraries could be in a bytecode format and the linker could finalize them once they're downloaded, and this would allow better and faster integration with many processor types from one "binary". This is the approach that I decided to use for my own language and I'm nearly done writing the VM and the code generator, because of course I have it setup to work as both a compiled and interpreted language. I hope this will finally be the year I release it, but who knows.
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@trejohnson7677 The IR it uses isn't the same as what I'm talking about as it's much lower level and far more closely tied to the hardware.
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