One of the world’s oldest and most influential Linux distributions, Debian, has officially announced plans to restructure its development strategy by adopting Rust as a core language for system-level tools and future packages.
Julian Andres Klode, a long-time Debian developer and lead maintainer of the Advanced Package Tool (APT), announced on the Debian developer list that, going forward, Rust will be a required dependency for Debian’s fundamental APT package manager.
Specifically, Klode wrote that he planned “to introduce hard Rust…

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