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Comment by loeg

To strongman the "anti" case: I believe that FreeBSD still nominally supports a number of architectures that have immature or no Rust support, which seems like a major blocker to (at least) rewriting major system components like devd in Rust. And build times are already a problem -- the joke five years ago was that the FreeBSD build was a wart on the side of Clang. Doubling that isn't ideal.

That said, I'm a big Rust believer and think it's the right tool for the job in a lot of situations where the historical answer was C or C++. Maybe it's the right tool for FreeBSD, too.

parent loeg 2 years ago

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