Unpopular opinion: What it means for a language to “have a spec” is so ambiguous as to be meaningless in practice.
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I'm not sure where the guilt about not having only a spec unless it's a super-spec comes from. If the reference is good enough, call it a spec. Can you say where the higher standard comes from?
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I dunno. Rust has had a culture of conservatism from the very beginning—it comes from being a language with a focus on safety and an academic influence, I think. IMO it’s a healthy attitude overall for keeping us honest, but it sometimes holds the language back a bit.
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Can you answer questions about how the type checker works from the spec? That's the place where a lot of other specs aren't precise at all.
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