Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Posted Jan 31, 2024 14:18 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Defining the Rust 2024 edition by joib
Parent article: Defining the Rust 2024 edition

> So perhaps the issue here is that it's the traditional Linux distros that need to adapt to how language ecosystems and software ecosystems work outside the 1980'ies C world?

....Yeah, how dare folks want to be able to handle their traditional use cases. The same use cases that all of these other language ecosystems stand on top of.

I swear, this really does come off as a "I don't care about the plights of farmers; I get my food from a supermarket!" dismissal.

Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Posted Jan 31, 2024 14:33 UTC (Wed) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]

Huh, where did I say that? By all means, keep the existing system working.

Just saying that trying to bludgeon the post-2000(-ish) software development world into the shape of the C & sh world is unlikely to be satisfactory to anyone. As there are orders of magnitude more non-distro developers out there, and the distros have little to no leverage over them, it seems this is a fight they're destined to lose.

Defining the Rust 2024 edition

Posted Feb 3, 2024 1:43 UTC (Sat) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

> I swear, this really does come off as a "I don't care about the plights of farmers; I get my food from a supermarket!"

This should go into LWN's quote section.