Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust)

Artur - thank you. Vadim - I agree with you and have seen the same. I was
actually trying to extricate Perl from the tiresome and wildly false
implication that Rust is a good replacement for Perl in pretty much any
case.

Cheers,
Brett

On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM Vadim Goncharov <vadimnuclight@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> WBR, @nuclight
>