Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:25:35 +0100 From: Vincent DEFERT <20.100@defert.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rust in base Message-ID: <60f1ea3e-01f2-bebe-a847-0cf53e50177a@defert.com> In-Reply-To: <mailman.85.1580212803.45016.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.85.1580212803.45016.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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Besides technical and POSIX conformance reasons, one more thing should be kept in mind: code is written by human beings and multiplying the languages used in a code base hinders their efforts. Also bear in mind that those efforts are made on their spare time, one of our scarcest resource. On 28/01/2020 10:11, markand@malikania.fr wrote: > That's a good thing but I still hope we won't need Rust (or Python, or > Perl, or Ruby, or Tcl, etc.) to build base. In my very strong and utopic > opinion, base should be built with only POSIX tools other parts should > just move to ports. My vision of what base should be is: kernel + POSIX > "coreutils" + FreeBSD specific commands (gpart, devd, etc)
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