# Setting our vision for the 2017 cycle

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**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/setting-our-vision-for-the-2017-cycle/3958 "2016-09-01T18:03:07Z")\
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In terms of compiler errors, currently linker errors are the weakest. It’s just “we ran this unreadable long command and something didn’t work”.

I know it’s probably hard to fix, and it’s not rustc, but the rest of the toolchain, but still — these errors happen, and it’s often hard to figure out why.

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