It’s rusty, thus it’s old? Hah! Rust in Fedora.

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It took a while, but thanks to Josh Stone Rust (the language) is approaching (as in: landing in) Fedora.

A long time ago a bug was opened to get Rust included into Fedora, but it was not easy to get in. Rust was (is?) bundling a few libraries. And some of the required libraries were not packaged. You can read the whole long story here, in 79 comments.

The final reason which gave the necessary push was probably, that Firefox will soon require Rust for some of it’s functionality.

To me it’s a great thing to see Rust in Fedora. It’s a little thing which helps to keep diversity.

As always: Provide feedback to improve packaging and the language itself. I’m also curious to see the first native Rust app in Fedora. Maybe rusty coreutils?

::: {#footer} [ September 14th, 2016 12:14pm ]{#timestamp} [rust]{.tag} [fedora]{.tag} :::