From nobody Sun Aug 4 18:00:17 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4WcS5x45c0z5SlbT for ; Sun, 04 Aug 2024 18:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [130.225.244.222]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4WcS5x1m26z4H8l; Sun, 4 Aug 2024 18:00:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (unknown [192.168.55.3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by phk.freebsd.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DA7B892B6; Sun, 04 Aug 2024 18:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from phk@localhost) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.18.1/8.16.1/Submit) id 474I0HUM050473; Sun, 4 Aug 2024 18:00:17 GMT (envelope-from phk) Message-Id: <202408041800.474I0HUM050473@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Alan Somers cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: A Demo of rust-in-base In-reply-to: From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" References: List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <50471.1722794417.1@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 18:00:17 +0000 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:1835, ipnet:130.225.0.0/16, country:EU] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4WcS5x1m26z4H8l -------- Alan Somers writes: > Due to all of the recent discussion of using Rust for code in the > FreeBSD base, I've put together a demo of what it might look like. It > demonstrates: Awesome! But to be blunt: Is it worth the effort, relative to concentrating on a pkg-based distribution of FreeBSD, where these things could be built with the regular "COTS" Rust ecosystem, without having to do all this extra work and adding all this extra maintenance load ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.