It's hard for a software project to make progress if the only way to reach users is non-rolling distros. To a large extent, the progress of software in non-roll

It's hard for a software project to make progress if the only way to reach users is non-rolling distros. To a large extent, the progress of software in non-rolling distros relies on enough other people using the intermediate versions from outside the distro repo, in rolling distros or on Mac/Windows. That said, Ubuntu​ does carry (an obsolete version of) Rust: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=rustc&searchon=names&suite=yakkety&section=all http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=rustc&searchon=na...