Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

Posted Dec 7, 2019 11:42 UTC (Sat) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc by pizza
Parent article: Soller: Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc

I'm saying that Linux distros are not a significant driver for distribution of code; server-side, you do whatever the devs want you to, client side is iOS, Android, Windows etc.

This, in turn, pulls down their influence - why should the authors of Krita, or someone writing code to run on Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Engine, care if their users have to run "cargo install", or "yarn install", instead of "apt install"? Unlike C++ land, where dependency management is otherwise manual, modern languages don't need distribution packaging to be easy to install and use code written in those languages - and that means that distros no longer hold the place of power they do in C++ land.

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