Rust in base

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Fri Jan 24 22:13:27 UTC 2020


On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:02:55 +0000 (UTC)
Ihor Antonov <ihor at antonovs.family> wrote:

> So there are 2 questions: 
> - technical one: how bootstrapping issue can be solved? 
> - what does FreeBSD community think of the idea to have Rust in base? 

	Some years back a great deal of work was done to remove perl from
the base so adding Rust (or anything else) would be a step back. An old BSD
goal is that base should be just enough to be self hosting and be BSD
(removing the traditional games from the base took some discussion).

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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