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I wonder if this will impact Debian's current debate [1] on init systems. A minimal systemd-compatible init system seems like a real contender here, and this pr

I wonder if this will impact Debian's current debate [1] on init systems. A minimal systemd-compatible init system seems like a real contender here, and this project shows that there're both interest and capability for developing one. [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002#textf https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002#textf

uluyol 7y ago
Tangential question: is rust usable for core parts of distributions like Debian that can run on a million architectures and even on different kernels? I hope to see more C code replaced by rust, but that seems difficult if portability to extremely niche systems is a requirement.
- pabs3 7y ago
  rustc isn't available for all of Debian's unofficial architectures yet: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc Looks like there is a bootstrap issue, rustc build-depends on cargo, which build-depends on itself.
  - xvilka 7y ago
    mrustc[1] can help with this issue. [1] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
jml7c5 7y ago
From the README: "For now that is just out of interest how far I could come with this and what would be needed to get a somewhat working system. It is very much a proof of concept." It's also only two months old. So I would say this a toy project. Of course, that it is a toy project right now does not preclude it becoming a real, robust init system in the future (just look at where the Linux kernel started, after all) but I do not think it is currently relevant to the Debian debate.