[nicoburns]

But also: don't use your distro provided version of Rust. It's intended for compiling distro packages that depend on Rust, not for developing with Rust. Get Rust from https://rustup.rs

[pavon]

And hence for writing rust code you would like to package for your distro of choice. I publish my software because I want others to use it, and including it in distro repos is the most friendly way to do that.