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Rust-the-language is fine. Rust-the-blessed-toolchain is the problem. In practical terms, it delivers enormous value, it's about the problems that lay down the
by rollcat 2y ago
Rust-the-language is fine. Rust-the-blessed-toolchain is the problem. In practical terms, it delivers enormous value, it's about the problems that lay down the road.
Once Rust can be easily bootstrapped? Like you can build the official Go toolchain from 1.4?
I'd argue Rust in Linux is less of a problem than Linux itself growing out of bounds. Compare seccomp with OpenBSD's pledge/unveil. But there's a reason why Linux is winning by a margin of 100.000x: it's simply more practical, even if less simple.
- wakawaka28 2y agoI don't think Rust delivers this tremendous value. Bootstrapping it doesn't do much unless everything gets migrated forward to the bootstrappable version. It's got all the worst aspects of a systems language combined with all the pain points of npm. I don't want to be required to be online or to download hundreds of unvetted bullshit packages to make a simple program, and that's the way it's made.