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• @Ferk@lemmy.ml 2026-10-26 19:38

  As I said, that’s a minority. Because there is no infrastructure supporting this. Why would anyone write Rustc only programs, if there is no such package and widespread availability? But there is. Whenever there’s need for “freestanding” (which has a specific meaning) or rust being on the side (ie. like Linux kernel), people have no problems to use rustc. It being bundled with cargo does not stop rust devs from using rustc. I find it hard to believe that you legitimately do think that the one thing stopping people from using rustc for these usecases is that cargo is simply available simultaneously with rustc. Did you know that there’s no g++ package in archlinux either? it’s bundled in the gcc package… do you think that means that there’s no widespread availability of g++ in Archlinux? Debian does have a rustc package, is using rustc directly more widespread in Debian?

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