Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust)

On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 12:55:21 -0500
estrabd <estrabd@gmail.com> wrote:

> At least one of the individuals I saw on that Git dev email list being a
> proponent for Rust is someone I worked personally with as a Perl
> programmer, and he's one of the best Perl programmers I know. He's arguing
> *in favor* of Rust being used with git. So the 2 are not mutually
> exclusive. The Perl community is still extremely active and still very much
> alive, but one thing that really gets my feathers ruffled is when Rust
> people (in particular) throw shade in our direction. Please don't try to
> draw others into this, no Perl programmer I know has even batted an eye
> about this. How it pertains to FreeBSD is another issue entirely, so let's
> stay on target.

I know some Perl programmers loving Rust, too, but en masse still view this as
contradictory and unusual for Perl community to promote Rust which has very
different values than Perl. One of that values, shared by also both C and
FreeBSD, is stability.

And for example, as for VCS, the author of SQLite and Fossil DVCS, tells in
https://sqlite.org/whyc.html that Rust, in it's current state, is unsuitable
for thsese projects, in particular due to stability and support.

Even myself had bad exeprience when I was in need to compile older Firefox 126
in March and this was not doable in host system (so I need to create jail with
9-months-older ports) due to Rust crates in that FF were compilable by Rust
1.78 but broken with Rust ~1.82 - same code, just few minor versions!

So it could be forecast this would be maintenance nightmare, especially given
FreeBSD major branch support times.

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WBR, @nuclight