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Rust already has this, it's called editions. The tricky part is it needs to stay ABI compatible to be able to link dependencies from other editions.

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More than that. Rust requires that a program can be compiled from multiple crates, with those crates all targeting different editions. This limits a lot of breaking changes you might want to make. APIs can never really be removed.

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