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Are any of the developers asking to switch to Rust?
by prettyStandard 3y ago
Are any of the developers asking to switch to Rust?
- prettyStandard 3y agoWow, down votes for a question. As a non rust developer, and non BSD user, but tangently aware of these things I am just trying to understand the energy of these communities. Guess I got my answer.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoOpenBSD is a tier 3 platform for Rust because of their release policy (frequent releases, no guaranteed backwards compatibility). Unless that changes it's unlikely that you'll see OpenBSD promoted beyond tier 3. From the OpenBSD side it's unlikely they'd adopt a language that's relegated them to the lowest priority.
- irdc 3y agoConsidering OpenBSD still supports some fairly old platforms[0] (for fairly good reasons, mainly that it helps catch bugs and keep the source tree portable) I don't see that happening soon. 0. https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html
- inferiorhuman 3y agoAs an aside, github's issue search has really gone to shit. On that list, I think only the Loongson and Landisk architectures are in the not likely to ever be supported. The rest are all supported by LLVM and/or GCC with various efforts to support them in rust.
- 634636346 3y agoTheo isn't a "Code of Conduct" type of guy. Not a good fit. Though the license of the Rust compiler (MIT/Apache) does at least make it a possibility.