> (The same is not true for node.js, Go, or Rust, which as mentioned is one reason I don't use them for my site. If people stopped making binaries for them, I'd

> (The same is not true for node.js, Go, or Rust, which as mentioned is one reason I don't use them for my site. If people stopped making binaries for them, I'd be lost.) Thankfully, this no longer appears to be the case for Rust, thanks to mrustc [0], a compiler that can build a working Rust 1.54.0 toolchain (released 2021-06-29) from source. It requires only a C++14-compatible compiler and some other common tools; I've just verified that its build script works with no problems on my Ubuntu machine. To be safe, you'd want to specify exact dependency versions for everything (or better yet, vendor them locally), since the big crates all have different policies for when they break backward compatibility with older compiler versions. [0] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc