Debian’s APT package manager will have a “hard requirement” on Rust from May 2026. This move may make some rather big waves.

  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    I think it is perfectly reasonable to drop some CPU architectures that haven’t been relevant in the last 20 years. It seems to me there are a lot of new people eager to contribute who have no interest in touching C any more than necessary, and a project that can no longer attract new contributors will sooner or later die.

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      How much of C programming is realistically dedicated to memory-management? As an amateur I always enjoyed working with C but I never worked on big, complex systems-programs or kernels.