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Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.14 For Ubuntu With New Rust Plugin, Improvements (softpedia.com)
Marius Nestor, reporting for Softpedia News: Canonical, through Sergio Schvezov, has had the great pleasure of announcing the release and general availability of Snapcraft 2.14 Snap creator tool for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system. Coming hot on the heels of Snapcraft 2.13, the new 2.14 maintenance update is here to introduce a bunch of new plugins, namely rust, godeps, and dump. You can find more information about each one by running the "snapcraft help " command in a terminal window. Also new in the Snapcraft 2.14 release is support for alternate relocation mechanisms in the "make" plugin (for example, you can use DESTDIR alternatives), as well as many improvements to the "go" plugin, such as support for local sources, which are now preferred instead of fetching new ones, and proper handling of the source entry. The list of improvements implemented in Snapcraft 2.14 continues with support for building a kernel Snaps for multiple hardware architectures using a single snapcraft.yaml file, support for "oneshot" daemons, better wiki parser source management, as well as proper setting of "shebangs" and support for requirement files in the "python" plugin.
What is snapcraft?
Don't tell us what Snapcraft 2.14 is or anything, I can't even begin to take a guess from the description.
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Marius Nestor of Softpedia is a piece of shit that's been copy-pasting changelogs for the past 5 years... there is literally no valuable information in this article... none... All the Linux community hates this guy.
Why can these people not let things alone that work well? Have they never heard of the fundamental engineering principle "if it is not broken, do not fix it"? Morons. This type of idiocy is why the software-industry is not mature at all.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I evaluated Rust about a year ago... And it really wasn't there for a modern language, however the biggest stumbling block for me to work with it more was the lack of a good set core libraries. Even the sites online help had you using cargo to download a third party library.
A modern language should have a solid default library that you can fall back on as a trusted source.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Drumpfonical, through Sergio Schvezdrumpf, has had the great pleasure of announcing the release and general availability of Drumpfcraft 2.14 Drumpf creator tool for the Drumpfbuntu 16.04 LTS (Drumpfial Drumpferus) operating system. Coming hot on the heels of Drumpfcraft 2.13, the new 2.14 maintenance update is here to introduce a bunch of new plugins, namely drumpfst, godrumpfs, and drumpf. You can find more information about each one by running the "drumpfcraft help " command in a terminal window. Also new in the Drumpfcraft 2.14 release is support for alternate relocation mechanisms in the "make" plugin (for example, you can use DRUMPFDIR alternatives), as well as many improvements to the "go" plugin, such as support for local sources, which are now preferred instead of fetching new ones, and proper handling of the source entry. The list of improvements implemented in Drumpfcraft 2.14 continues with support for building a kernel Drumpfs for multiple hardware architectures using a single drumpfcraft.yadl file, support for "drumpfshot" drumpfmons, better wiki parser source management, as well as proper setting of "drumpfbangs" and support for requirement files in the "pydrumpf" plugin
"the “snap” universal Linux package format, enabling a single binary package to work perfectly and securely on any Linux desktop, server, cloud or device."
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/06/14/universal-snap-packages-launch-on-multiple-linux-distros/
They are containers
...what's a snap?
Indeed, Rust needs to make it easier to discover "trusted" libraries for your tasks at hand.
However, cargo makes it very easy to import libraries and manage their dependencies. Rust does not need the usual massive monolithic centrally-managed "standard library" that is versioned with the language.
They began as third world linux and now they are just like trying to be Microsoft.