> Rust ran into places where they're like "infinite loop please" and LLVM says "Aha, C++ says those never happen, optimising accordingly" but er... that's the wrong language
Worth mentioning that LLVM 12 added first-class support for infinite loops without guaranteed forward progress, allowing this to be fixed: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728
At least it's not just clownish version acceleration. They decided they wanted versions to increase faster somewhere around 2017-2018 (4.xx), and the version increase is more or less linear before and after that time, just at different slopes.
