Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 12:35, Lars Engels wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 12:11:55PM +0000, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 12:07, Lars Engels wrote:
> >
> > > Wojciech, we got it. FreeBSD is perfect for you. You do not care about
> > > what other people need, think and want. It's okay for you when FreeBSD's
> > > user base shrinks until you are its last user.
> > > Can we other people now discuss how we can FreeBSD make relevant again?
> >
> >
> > Out of curiosity, how do you see Rust making FreeBSD "relevant again"?
>
> My mail was not about adding Rust to base. I only picked up a random
> rant mail to reply to. There are other sub-threads where my reply would
> have been more appropriate, I think.


Fair enough, as a user of FreeBSD, may I suggest a way to make FreeBSD
"relevant again" is to start eliminating bugs that are show-stoppers
for users and cause those users to switch to alternatives, instead of
obsessing with toys-du-jour?


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Igor M.