All of Debian's patches for rustc: bugfixes, tweaks for the Debian environment, and even some reproducibility improvements.
https://sources.debian.org/patches/rustc/1.40.0+dfsg1-5/
Many have a separate comment, which is really helpful.
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I'm considering switching my personal servers (on Digital Ocean) from Ubuntu to Debian. I essentially just need something running Docker for most of my projects.
Debian seems to require upgrading less often. Any opinions?
For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?
The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html