On 20/07/26 at 16:39, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,
according to Greg Kroah-Hartman ,
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/>.
And in contrast, Rust is only stable on a handful of platforms:
<https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html>. Most
platforms are not guaranteed to build or work as expected by users.
It's really impressive how much work the developers are putting in for
coding in Rust:
~$ apt-cache search librust-* | wc -l
3252
and the speed at which the standard library is growing up:
~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt-cache search libstd-rust-1 | sort
libstd-rust-1.85 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.86 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.87 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.88 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.89 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.90 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.91 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.92 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.93 - Rust standard libraries
libstd-rust-1.94 - Rust standard libraries
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~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt changelog libstd-rust-1.85 2>/dev/null | head -10
Get:1 https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org rustc 1.85.0+dfsg3-1
Changelog [79.7 kB]
rustc (1.85.0+dfsg3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* backport fix for gix-features CVE-2025-31130
* rust-lldb: fix lldb version (Closes: #1100950)
* cherry-pick fix for crossbeam-channel RUSTSEC-2025-0024
-- Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Apr
2025 17:47:57 +0200
rustc (1.85.0+dfsg2-3) unstable; urgency=medium
~$ LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 apt changelog libstd-rust-1.94 2>/dev/null | head -10
Get:1 https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org rustc
1.94.1+dfsg1-1~bpo13+3 Changelog [90.2 kB]
rustc (1.94.1+dfsg1-1~bpo13+3) trixie-backports; urgency=medium
* cherry-pick fixes for CVE-2026-5222 and CVE-2026-5223
-- Fabian Grünbichler <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May
2026 21:06:12 +0200
rustc (1.94.1+dfsg1-1~bpo13+2) trixie-backports; urgency=medium
* Rebuild on buildds.
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ten releases in approx one year, I'm tempted to buy a book to learn
coding in Rust :-)
kind regards,
--
Franco Martelli
