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Rust is supported in all Debian release architectures. It kinds of has to, it is a build dependency of Firefox (and soon, Linux itself). To be more than a FUD,
by sanxiyn 4y ago
Rust is supported in all Debian release architectures. It kinds of has to, it is a build dependency of Firefox (and soon, Linux itself).
To be more than a FUD, you should specify which Linux distribution and which architecture. Yes, it was bad in Rust's early days, but not anymore. I speak this as someone who worked to improve Rust support in Linux distributions and across architectures.
It is fair to say Swift support in Linux distributions is spotty, as Swift is not packaged in Debian at all, and Swift upstream is developed against its own LLVM fork, which distributions are reluctant to package. I don't think it is fair to say the same to Rust. Rust upstream takes care to support LLVM releases, precisely so that it is easier to package by Linux distributions.
- toyg 4y ago> you should specify which Linux distribution Ah yes, Linux is the only OS in the world. How could I forget that?
- sebzim4500 4y agoGGP specifically called out the (alleged lack of) support in linux distributions
- mid-kid 4y agoI said "spotty", not nonexistent. Many distributions patch around the lack of suitable support by vendoring all dependencies and locking their versions, making it hard to see the dependency graph from the package manager, scan for vulnerabilities, patch/fix a library across the entire distribution, etc etc.