Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:07:38 +0100 From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components Message-ID: <20181231160738.j4gow437liu7urjy@sernet.de> In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpV0kxupmkhHiYBT05Yfst6uNtbUyYUzG95Zwcbk9F3K0Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <ca76e5f7-6e59-bd67-144a-90ad66f0252e@metricspace.net> <CAG6CVpV0kxupmkhHiYBT05Yfst6uNtbUyYUzG95Zwcbk9F3K0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:56:11PM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote: > I don't think this is a viable long term plan even if Rust was ported > to all of our platforms (and I don't see that happening, either). 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. Unfortunately the llvm C backend was cancelled a while ago. Volker
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