Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 4 days agoDebian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunsetwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down13
arrow-up1172arrow-down1external-linkDebian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunsetwww.phoronix.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squarewhoever loves Digit@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down9·edit-24 days ago Rust adds another layer of trusting the compiler isn’t backdoored. All UNIX/Linux systems use the gcc toolchain, so having it written in C would mean less dependencies for the OS. paraphrased from someone who seemed to know more about this stuff in this unrelated discussion yesterday Strange times.
minus-squareeah@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 days agoThere’s an ongoing effort to get gcc to compile Rust.[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/907405/ ↩︎
minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoThis seems relevant: https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM
Strange times.
There’s an ongoing effort to get gcc to compile Rust.[1]
https://lwn.net/Articles/907405/ ↩︎
This seems relevant:
https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM