Ludovic Courtès on Nostr: With all its benefits over C/C++ in terms of memory safety, Rust itself still depends ...
With all its benefits over C/C++ in terms of memory safety, Rust itself still depends on itself to be built*, and Rust’s packaging approach is a nightmare for distros of a magnitude close to that of npm.
* This can be worked around but it doesn’t come for free:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/Published at
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