Rust

Rustc is most dangerous compiler and ecosystem for GNU/Linux community.

Rust ecosystem influence

Rustc is affect on software build:

• Increase build time.
• Make software build more expensive: more time - more energy - more costs!
• Packages downloading with own package manager:
  • riscs of build failure and unexpected behavior of built software.
  • no build without Internet connection
• Reduce supported CPU architectures

Rust community influence

Rust community is rewrite software to change licenses and capture the users of original software packages and their donations.

GNU Founder Richard Stallman says that Rust language users may only support memory safety, but not free software movement.

More detailed explanation is done by famous tech journalist Bryan Lunduke in video articles listed bellow:

• "Can We Trust Rust?"
• "Rust is a Cult"
• "Ubuntu Replaces Sudo with Untested Rust Alternative in Next Release"
• "Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in Rust Sudo Clone in Ubuntu"
• "Rust Clone of Core Utils Breaks Ubuntu Updates"
• "Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down"
• "NetBSD Says No to Rust"
• "Rust Coreutil Re-Write "So Subpar I Don't Even Have Words" Says Developer"

Resistance

Common ways to resist rust invasion are:

• stop rewriting exist applications code to rust
• rewriting rust code to other languages
• replacing rust applications and libraries

News

• 2025-10-23
• GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - rusted library librsvg has been dropped from GTK4 package dependencies list. ULFS 0.3 is now able to drop librsvg and it deprecated dependencies

Rust is not defeated yet but resistance is continue! Stay tuned!