> Some people appreciate having backports. Users of software written in Rust does NOT. So why bother doing backports for them?
This is completely false. First and foremost, people who use applications don't care at all what language those apps are written in, and there is no "community of people who use Rust tools" that could have a different world-view from everyone else.
And beyond that, there is no one in the world who doesn't want backports, because it's never safe to just take the latest version of some piece of software and expect that everything will still work as expected. Having to take even a month of new features just because you need a security fix.
And note that Rust even at the language level has strong support for backwards compatibility and support for older versions. It's definitely not true that Rust people, even developers, live at the bleeding edge and don't need backports.
This is completely false. First and foremost, people who use applications don't care at all what language those apps are written in, and there is no "community of people who use Rust tools" that could have a different world-view from everyone else.
And beyond that, there is no one in the world who doesn't want backports, because it's never safe to just take the latest version of some piece of software and expect that everything will still work as expected. Having to take even a month of new features just because you need a security fix.
And note that Rust even at the language level has strong support for backwards compatibility and support for older versions. It's definitely not true that Rust people, even developers, live at the bleeding edge and don't need backports.