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With a port of Dlang :-)

• Koshkin 5y ago
  But no Rust, it seems. (Wouldn't it be nice if the most secure OS was (re)written in the safest language available today?)
  • gnubison 5y ago
    The OpenBSD people value both security and simplicity — I doubt that they would adopt Rust system-wide.
  • ayushnix 5y ago
    IIRC, Theo was (is?) against using rust because rust hasn't seen real world usage and coreutils hasn't been written in rust (according to him). When someone pointed out how there's RedoxOS and uutils, coreutils written in rust, he went on to question their POSIX compliance and whether memory safety was really a thing. So yeah, I doubt rust is ever coming to OpenBSD. I'm also skeptical about the level of adoption rust will see in the Linux kernel. People are usually resistant to change (sometimes for good reasons). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er44ur7wkXQ&t=2107 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er44ur7wkXQ&t=2107