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Anyone developing games with this project is likely to be on Windows, Linux or Mac, on x64 or aarch64. Such developers would likely install Rust with rustup, no
by nindalf 6y ago
Anyone developing games with this project is likely to be on Windows, Linux or Mac, on x64 or aarch64. Such developers would likely install Rust with rustup, not with the distro provided one. So yes, any developer that fits this description can rely on the newest, hottest compiler.
- linkdd 6y agoAnd that's perfectly fine. But game developers are a small fractions of Rust developers.
- _joel 6y agoI think most devs use rustup, not the distro supplied one.
- 3836293648 6y agoIs rustc even in the repos? Should it (and cargo) be? Or should they just have rustup? I lean towards the latter
- steveklabnik 6y agorustc is in pretty much every distro's repos at this point. They often have Cargo too. They sometimes, but not always, have rustup.
- maccam94 6y agoSome distros ship programs compiled with rust, and they do so using the version of rustc in the repo.
- nicoburns 6y agoRight, but it's this specific project that requires the latest Rust compiler, not Rust libraries in general.