[olingern]

> It is assumed that by following the steps in this proposal that Alpine users will be presented with a functional Rust toolchain which has a maintenance window of 2 years, that is also supportable by the Rust community through its normal support channels.

I’m struggling to see the benefit of moving from community to main. It seems more symbolic and geared towards making certain guarantees for end users, but it’s hard to grok that

[EwanToo]

I think without that commitment, it's hard for the overall Alpine distribution and other teams working on it to use Rust as part of their toolchain.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> I’m struggling to see the benefit of moving from community to main

I think this is about using Rust in the Alpine distribution itself and having core components actually use Rust.

[edoceo]

At this point it's just getting ready to have the future option of more core stuff in Rust. Step0:tooling; Step1:packages