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The Debian example you're referring to was back from the release of 11. It's rustc was only 3 months old and already couldn't compile. That's not a "Debian is old" problem and it was only one instance. I've run into the same problem on other OSes as well. No OS hosted repo can keep up with rust and it's particular selection of bleeding edge types.

And it's hardly every Rust thread. There are far too many rust threads to even count, let alone comment on.



> No OS hosted repo can keep up with rust and it's particular selection of bleeding edge types.

Seems empirically false https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/rust/

If your distro is unwilling to update a package with a single backwards-compatible minor version bump every 6 weeks, that’s a cultural issue, not a technical one. The “stability“ Debian imagines it gets from shipping a years-old compiler version instead of keeping up-to-date with non-breaking compiler updates is entirely mythical.

Pick a less sclerotic distro next time.


Oh, okay, we'll just write off the entire concept of release based distributions because of one start-up programming language then? Everyone switches to rolling release? That's pretty absurd.


> No OS hosted repo can keep up with rust and it's particular selection of bleeding edge types.

what? why? someone has to click the approve on the update+build+publish pipeline.. and that's in most repos anyway.




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