TW: Meme language

So a few people moaning in 2018 (6 years ago), and again in 2021 (3 years ago). And since then, despite the complaints, both of them appear to have just went ahead and depended on Rust code since anyway?

I do genuinely understand the objections there fwiw. Fewer architectures and longer bootstrap chains can be annoying. I agree with the KDE contributor, it's a thing that should be discussed.[1]

However today any distro that wants to package GNOME (or even just have working nvidia or opencl drivers) needs to package a bunch of rust code anyway. You say it's prescient, but I personally haven't heard any of those complaints since the pyca fiasco. I'm not terribly convinced using it in something like text shaping would actually be a big deal at this point.[2]

[1] Although I do wish we discussed it regarding build time dependencies on e.g. Perl too
[2] Or at least, not as big as a deal as people who title threads things like "TW: Meme language" want it to be.