{"id":95026,"date":"2025-06-16T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=99a41975d57c24c1d6af73a89d70f11e"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:19:44","slug":"retrobootstrapping-rust-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=95026","title":{"rendered":"Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/graydon2.dreamwidth.org\/317484.html\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: It's an interesting effort for any toolchain, but especially so for rust that is frequently self-incompatible.\n\nAlso, reinforces something I notice ever more in computing: Debian is forever.  \n\nNeed to set up a box doing some job that you only lay hands on for a couple hours a year for decades?  Debian.\nNeed to spin a VM matching the state of a mainline OS 15 years ago? Debian.\nNeed to bring up old hardware with a modern-ish environment? Debian.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=44293044\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=95026\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}