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Rust needs an official specification (tweedegolf.nl)
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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

That's actually not how any language has ever been written, though it's easy to get that impression from how much the C and C++ communities emphasize their formal specifications.

But in fact, both languages were in production use for over a decade before they had a formal spec. And languages with formal specifications are actually a tiny minority of programming languages.