Speculative: Rust for base system components

Cy Schubert Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com
Thu Jan 3 21:37:28 UTC 2019


In message <alpine.BSF.2.20.1901031112030.53034 at puchar.net>, Wojciech 
Puchar wr
ites:
> > necessary bits with one pkg install command.
> >
> > In summary we should pair down base and use ports to our advantage.
> > Unless the proposal is to add some feature written in rust that cannot
> > live in ports or if the proposal is to rewrite FreeBSD into rust (which
> > I vehemently disagree with),
>
> Why do you disagree?! Let others do it, or even reimplement it in java or 
> visual basic.
>
> But as a separate project.

Exactly! Fork. If it's good and becomes generally adopted, import.


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