Post by @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml

2026-10-26 21:22 UTC

What? I’m actually saying the opposite, not that nobody wants to do it. Otherwise why would I suggest it. I am saying its not widespread adopted, and you cannot expect OTHERS to have rustc+stdlib to be installed on the system, like a standard Linux tool. People use it for their specific use cases, like Linux, but its not something you can expect on other machines. Imagine rustc+stdlibs were available by default like Python, ideally installed on default. Maybe not installed on default, depending on the system you are, but everyone should expect this package with the stdlib on be available.

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@Ferk@lemmy.ml 2026-10-26 21:38

You literally said “the current infrastructure and distributions doesn’t treat rustc+stdlib as its own thing, that nobody will target it and everyone assumes Cargo”. We know that people do target it… so the only way I can interpret “nobody will target it” is that you are saying that people are not interested in targetting it because cargo is there. Imagine rustc+stdlibs were available by default like Python, ideally installed on default Even gcc is not preinstalled in most user distros. The reason python is preinstalled is because it’s an interpreter, so it’s required at runtime. And that’s completely unrelated to cargo… one could argue that there’s just as much reason to include cargo preinstalled too if you were to pre-install rustc. I still don’t see how the packaging being different between distros really matters that much.

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