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As a RapidSketch user on my organisations web ratings board working group living in a coastal area affected by soil erosion and with a penchant for DNA modelling, I find Rusts choice of file extension perturbing.

.rust.programming.language would make far more sense than pretending Rust will ever need to work in DOS.

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> Rust DOS : Creating a DOS executable with Rust

https://github.com/o8vm/rust_dos

Ah, but to make the 3 character limit matter, you need to have the source files on dos. So, it's not enough to compile a binary for dos, but one needs to run the compiler itself on dos!

I think they meant compiling rust on DOS.

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