Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Garance A Drosehn]

On 2 Jan 2019, at 8:54, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Brian's simple experiment [1] demonstrates that "zero-cost" is
>>> more of an aspiration (and a very long term one, perhaps) than
>>> a hard fact ;-)
>>
>> Brian's simple experiment is a simple experiment.  It's interesting,
>> but hardly the definitive word in evaluating a language.  We need
>> more real-world experience with serious programs before dismissing
>
> wrong. you have to PROVE it's useful, not prove it's not useful.

Please read the rest of my replies before getting yourself worked
up over whatever it is that you think I am trying to prove.

Note that I'm having some trouble with my email client over the
last few days, so read all emails (no matter how oddly formatted)
which are by either gad at FreeBSD.org or 'drosih at rpi.edu' (even if
it doesn't include my first name in it).

If you read them all, you'll hopefully realize that I am not
trying to force anyone to do any specific thing, and thus I don't
have to prove much of anything.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     drosih at rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA