I'm a Debian Developer, and do some Rust both professionally and for fun. I restrict myself to using only libraries and tooling from Debian. The experience is q

I'm a Debian Developer, and do some Rust both professionally and for fun. I restrict myself to using only libraries and tooling from Debian. The experience is quite OK. And I find the Rust language team to be quite friendly and sympathetic to our needs. Rather, what makes it hard is the culture and surrounding ecosystem of pinned versions or the latest of everything. That's probably in part the fault of Rustup being recommended, I agree. But it's not nefarious.