I was pleasantly surprised at how civil and thoughtful that conversation was! I was also expecting the “flame-retardant pants” to be necessary after reading the

I was pleasantly surprised at how civil and thoughtful that conversation was! I was also expecting the “flame-retardant pants” to be necessary after reading the title. I didn’t realize how complicated the backend tooling is to achieve the same portability as C - it seems so much simpler as a consumer of the toolchain. IIRC the bootstrapping problem is still something distros are fighting with today, but hopefully one day we can have rustc bundled with all the other standard build tools.