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It may be worthwhile trying out Fedora. I haven't used it in years now. Good to see that they are making a conscious effort to keep a number of compilers/tool
by 0xmohit 10y ago
It may be worthwhile trying out Fedora. I haven't used it in years now.
Good to see that they are making a conscious effort to keep a number of compilers/toolchains updated.
Fedora aims to include Rust 1.11 this time around.
Google's Go will be boosted to the recently released 1.7,
Node.js will be upgraded to version 6.x, the PHP stack will now
run the better-performing version 7.0, and Ruby on Rails is
being bumped to version 5, which has been released after many
years of development. Erlang and Haskell, two major specimens
of the functional language world, are also getting their
Fedora-bundled compilers upgraded to newer versions.
- steveklabnik 10y agoWe've been doing lots of work in recent Rust releases to help make packaging for distros easier; the bootstrap process changed in 1.10, for example. It's going to become extremely important over the next year or so, especially as Firefox picks up more Rust code. Even if distros don't start packaging other Rust programs, that's a big one. Managing distro release cycles, Firefox release cycles, and Rust release cycles, and the various dependencies between them gets complex.
- 0xmohit 10y agoYes, have noticed that. Usually distros lag a fair bit in keeping up-to-date on common tools/utilities; I wish the popular ones like Ubuntu (Canonical) do better in keeping the LTS versions more updated. You guys have also been doing a terrific job with the documentation. Awesome!