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From what I understand, Rust is not making in-roads into the OpenBSD world for at least these reasons: 1) Rust's use of LLVM means it will not work on some har
by supdog 11y ago
From what I understand, Rust is not making in-roads into the OpenBSD world for at least these reasons:
1) Rust's use of LLVM means it will not work on some hardware platforms that the OpenBSD folks are committed to run on.
2) The Rust project currently does not offer a long term support release.
These are important to the OpenBSD team. Additionally, I am sure that they value the memory safety that Rust offers.
I wonder if the OpenBSD team would ever design a systems language?
- rhelmer 11y agoNote I said "BSD World" :) FreeBSD is already using LLVM (Clang) instead of GCC, and support fewer platforms - I think this would be a more pragmatic place to push something new like Rust. If it works out there, OpenBSD could audit and import things at their leisure, at least in theory.
- digitalzombie 11y agoWhy didn't they just use Ada then? Ada have been long before Rust and is a good alternative to C.