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But the Rust toolchain adopted for a given Ubuntu version can compile the Rust core utilities for that version. I don't see what the stability problem is here.
by bitwize 2y ago
But the Rust toolchain adopted for a given Ubuntu version can compile the Rust core utilities for that version. I don't see what the stability problem is here. Furthermore, doing this in Ubuntu will nudge other distros to do the same, furthering the long-term goal of the Rust project: to rid the world of C, C++, and all their scourges.
- TingPing 2y agoRust projects do not care about the limits of a distro, they just say use rustup, so future fixes will be left out of Ubuntu sometimes.
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y agoThat's hardly unique to Rust projects. Quite a few projects in other languages (e.g. Python) don't care about distro limitations & fixes get left out of Ubuntu. Even C has that issue. "Stable" distros only get the updates the maintainers can backport.
- TingPing 2y agoSure but the “stable tools” are currently C and those projects probably build on a decade old distro. Replacing them with faster moving projects will hit issues.