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Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset
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There's time until March for the maintainers of the 3 niche architectures to organize and make rust available for them. Doesn't sound that abrupt to me
For small niches, six months can be rather aprupt.
My niche can take 5 days or 5 months, depending on ADHD
Wasn't there a Rust-to-C compiler that would circumvent this limitation?
Yes. There is also a GCC front-end for Rust (does not go to C first).