Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:00 PM Igor Mozolevsky <igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 19:44, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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.
>
>
> "Call[ing] the discussion mostly closed," and calling to get on
> implementing in CRust is pushing, if it isn't, then I don't know what
> is:-
>

that's putting an end-cap on the productive part of the discussion,
something we've been terrible as a project at doing.

There's no punishment here. That's merely a summary of the more-or-less
consensus view that this might be interesting someday, but isn't today. We
really can't take the discussion farther than that right now.

Warner