I like the article, but the following advice confused me, especially since this comes from RedHat i.e. Linux people: > Having Rust installed (recommended way is https://www.rustup.rs/ ). This essentially recommends unconditionally using the "curl | sh" anti-pattern. Shouldn't they recommend instead e.g. "apt-get install rustc" for Debian users? Since this doesn't make use of too recent Rust features, using Rust 1.14…
I think distros package rustup too. Here on Arch it is pacman -S rustup (instead of the curl | sh thing) then proceed normally. Installing an outdated toolchain makes little sense because after this example people interested in Rust may want to do other things, and will encounter an artificial roadblock when they (or a worse, a dependency) needs a newer Rust. I think the Rust packaged in the distros is meant to be a…
Re: Speed up your Python using Rust
#101Arch has Rustup? Today I learned. That's amazing!