Speculative: Rust for base system components

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Mon Dec 31 20:21:01 UTC 2018


Rozhuk Ivan wrote in <20181231221030.6471937e at rimwks>:
 |On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:07:38 +0100
 |Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE> wrote:
 |
 |> Not being involved in FreeBSD but in Samba, I could see a migration of
 |> parts of Samba to Rust if it had a Rust->C translator. I think for
 |> FreeBSD base components similar arguments would apply. You could ship
 |> the C output for the platforms that don't have native Rust.
 |
 |Rust is modern geeks toy by mozilla.
 |Just waste ot time, without any real profits.

I vote for Nim (former Nimrod is no more).

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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