Rust compiler support works differently

Posted Dec 16, 2025 15:03 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Rust compiler support works differently by laarmen
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment

> And from the standard dev perspective, both notions are fairly identical, as keeping your dependencies up to date is a common practice, and you don't have that many of them anyway.

...."hundreds" isn't "that many" ?

(this anectdata is brought to you by every Rust-based thing I have deployed right now)

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Rust compiler support works differently

Posted Dec 16, 2025 15:23 UTC (Tue) by laarmen (subscriber, #63948) [Link]

Right, my bad, I should have qualified: not that many *compared to the entirety of crates.io*, meaning the odds of one of them being both out of date and incompatible are fairly low.

Don't take this as an endorsement of the sprawling dep trees of some Rust projects :-)

To give some hard numbers, Rust 1.85 in Ubuntu vendors 672 crates. Since that directory contains dependencies for the entire toolchain, including cargo and rustdoc, I think they're on the conservative side of the ecosystem.

Rust compiler support works differently

Posted Dec 17, 2025 9:02 UTC (Wed) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

Hundreds of crates is probably still significantly less code than e.g. one Qt.