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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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This is one of the things I like about Rust: its rustup program can install the latest version of Rust in my home folder. I don't need my distro to carry the latest version.
Unlike some similar things for other languages (like nvm for Node.js), rustup doesn't require me to use a specific shell, doesn't require me to use any special prefix for commands invoking Rust toolchain programs (I can just run
cargo buildandcargo runlike normal), and doesn't touch any environment variable (except adding its installation folder toPATHwhen rustup is first installed).Instead, it simply installs a wrapper binary for each of the programs in Rust's toolchain. The wrapper binary checks if there is a Rust version override for the project I'm working on, then finds and executes the appropriate version of whichever program I'm trying to run. Nice and clean, with a bare minimum of nonsense.