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Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports (www.theregister.com)
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Debian's APT package manager will have a "hard requirement" on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly I wonder when gccrs will become viable as a compiler because that could bring support for some of the more niche CPUs

[–] Overspark@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

https://lwn.net/Articles/1040197/

People often ask "when will gccrs be ready?", he said. It will be ready in one sense — building libcore, though perhaps not compiling it entirely correctly — by early 2026.

That doesn't mean it's actually viable though, but it's slowly getting there.