Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:32 PM Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:

> >> That's precisely how ideas that most people disagree with get *pushed*
> >> through by evangelists with confirmation bias! Like someone said
> >> earlier in the discussion: does Rust add anything? The answer is a
> >> resounding NO, save for bloat.
> >
> > And this is why one reason people say “FreeBSD is dying”.
> >
> dying for whom?
>

And who is getting punished? We're having an interesting discussion about a
possible new technology to use and developing criteria to know when we will
know if/when it's useful.

Warner