Comment by davexunit

It's frustrating to see the "rewrite it in Rust" meme continue spread to all sorts of projects when there is no reasonable packaging story for the language and no solution in sight because the community does not see it as a problem. Cargo has introduced a huge problem for distros that didn't exist with languages like C. Compared to Rust, packaging C projects for distros is easy. Because of these problems, developers are receiving more issue reports from distro maintainers and are becoming more hostile to distro packaging, adopting a "use my binary or go away" mentality. Of course, this is a general problem that has been happening for all languages that come with a language-specific package manager; developers love them but they're typically unaware of the massive downstream problems they cause. It's getting harder to harder to exercise freedom 2 of free software and that's a shame.