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From: Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:45:42 +0000
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Subject: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 13:19, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote:

<snip>

> Circling back a bit late (I'm swamped right now) to make one final
> follow-up...
>
> I think it would be a useful exercise to try and get a minimal
> rust-based UEFI boot loader up and going.  When I have some more free
> time (hopefully soon), I might take a swing at it.
>


So if (and we all know where this is headed!) that were to make it
into the distribution, how many compilers would one need to compile to
actually compile a FreeBSD distro by then?..

-- 
Igor M.