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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[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months 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.

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