undu comments on Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset

Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There's time until March for the maintainers of the 3 niche architectures to organize and make rust available for them. Doesn't sound that abrupt to me

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago (1 child)

For small niches, six months can be rather aprupt.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago

My niche can take 5 days or 5 months, depending on ADHD

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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

Wasn't there a Rust-to-C compiler that would circumvent this limitation?

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Yes. There is also a GCC front-end for Rust (does not go to C first).

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