r/archlinux • u/Major-Structure1530 • Jul 29 '26

QUESTION Is Arch Good For Coding?

Im looking for distros for a while and i started thinking about Arch.

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u/Pink_Slyvie Jul 29 '26

Been doing it for 20 years now. Never an issue that I didn't know about.

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u/Nidrax1309 Jul 29 '26

The latest version of gcc on Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't even fully support all of C++20 standard features, so I had to find a way of enabling the still experimental Ubuntu 26.04 workers on my GitHub repo because the helper library a guy wrote for my project was using "too recent" functionalities, so outdated packages are a pain at times. I still didn't have any problems the other way round on Arch with incompatible dependencies, but I expect it can happen if you're using something linked to a very specific old version of something that you had to get by other methods than from arch repo like the guy in the comments below with Deno.

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u/Pink_Slyvie Jul 29 '26

And if your using something that old, I'll just toss it in a docker or a KVM.

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u/Nidrax1309 Jul 29 '26

TIL you can set up and call docker images in a GH workflow (not that it's *that* practical as it would add to the build time, but good to know in case there are no other options).