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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2019 20:30:38 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>, Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components
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>> That's precisely how ideas that most people disagree with get *pushed*
>> through by evangelists with confirmation bias! Like someone said
>> earlier in the discussion: does Rust add anything? The answer is a
>> resounding NO, save for bloat.
>
> And this is why one reason people say “FreeBSD is dying”.
>
dying for whom?
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Subject: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Cc: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>,
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On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:32 PM Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:

> >> That's precisely how ideas that most people disagree with get *pushed*
> >> through by evangelists with confirmation bias! Like someone said
> >> earlier in the discussion: does Rust add anything? The answer is a
> >> resounding NO, save for bloat.
> >
> > And this is why one reason people say =E2=80=9CFreeBSD is dying=E2=80=
=9D.
> >
> dying for whom?
>

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.

Warner



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