I don't understand your argument. Holding toolchains at older versions is what's expensive. Distros don't do that for fun. In general, keeping under-the-hood software to older versions is desired by both ISVs and end users. (Ask me how I know!) 1/2
AFAICT, most of my users are using Windows or macOS, or have created a Dockerfile or equivalent that uses `rustup` to install the Rust toolchain in Linux. I'm not convinced a significant % of users install the rust toolchain to build my stuff using distro-packaged toolchain.
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Oh, I agree, developers-as-users want the newest of the stuff they're building with. But that's not the focus of LTS distros. On the other hand, devs are obviously vital — so, again, hopefully Modularity as a potential solution. [1/2 again]
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... but distros also need to provide better support for language-native packaging systems, and to find new ways to provide users and devs the benefits we brought to OSes in the 2000s... but in today's world. [2/2, probably]
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