2026-10-26 21:17 UTC
You also said earlier that it’s also not something that stops anyone from using rustc only.
So I honestly, I don’t understand what is the problem. People do use rustc without cargo, and make projects with zero dependency… so I don’t get why you say that nobody would want to do that, when there’s people doing it. Like the Linux devs.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-10-26 21:22
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.