Post by @urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe

@urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe

2026-10-25 15:05 UTC

Well, like with everything now, rust is much more than the compiler, and will need the entire toolchain, so you’d want rust up or pinned toolchain packages so you had access to cargo and the full ecosystem.

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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-10-25 15:33

Rust has a compiler rustc which does not need the entire toolchain like cargo and eco system. It can be used like Python and C with standard libraries only and adding libraries manually without package manager.

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@badmin@lemmy.today 2026-10-25 19:28

All major distributions ship their own compiled rustc/cargo packages already, and they’ve done so for years. And putting rust projects using nightly features aside*, stable rust version updates are much less disruptive than major GCC or clang updates. Breakages are rare, known in advance, and communicated to upstreams before hand (look up “crater” if you want to learn more). * Not sure if distros package, or need to package any such packages, but I didn’t do any surveys on the subject.

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