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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
by 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 agorustc 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 agomrustc[1] can help with this issue. [1] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc