2014, 208 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211
2016, 490 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11337399
What is the progress over years?
One fun recent development in 2021: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-...
> tldr: Rust/coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ ) is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.