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I would say give it time, you can't measure Rust with this yardstick (yet), Rust is a baby in terms of age.

Let's not forget that C is ~50 years old and yet having reliable, open-source, high-quality compilers is a thing of the past 20 years or so. Clang was born in the 2000's, GCC is much older but it wasn't that great of a compiler for some time. Same with VS.

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As far as I know, though, C has had multiple implementations for years: IBM has its own compiler, Sun had one, Borland and all sorts of other vendors had one. It seems to me that C comes from an era where languages were standardized and multiple vendors provided their own implementations: Common Lisp, Ada, Fortran, even a relatively obscure language like Eiffel all fit this criteria.

yep multiple implementations and glorious code work around for each one of them! ahh those were the days

This might be an overly rosy view of history :) prior to 89 C wasn’t even standardized, and C++ was a mess until 98. And those are just the years that the standards came up. It took time for existing compilers to catch up.

I’m somewhat familiar with this: I write a lot of Common Lisp and try to stick to the portable features (standard + compatibility libraries). So, I occasionally find issues with particular implementations.

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