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Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 month 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.