Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/912202/

Linux distributions were, as a general rule, designed during an era when
most software of interest was written in C; as a result, distributions
are naturally able to efficiently package C applications and the libraries
they depend on. Modern languages, though, tend to be built around their
own package-management systems that are designed with different goals in
mind. The result is that, for years, distributors have struggled to find
the best ways to package and ship applications written in those languages.
A recent discussion in the Fedora community on the packaging of Rust
applications shows that the problems have not yet all been solved.