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HardSun

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Re: Hard Rust requirements for APT from may next year

So, what's the fucking point ?

Its memory safe and modern

blackhole

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Re: Hard Rust requirements for APT from may next year

The point is that it's funded and organised by the Rust Foundation, which is a consortium of Microsoft, google and Amazon, along with Huawei and the founder Mozilla (who famously laid off all the developers).

In other words there is a business case for rust, otherwise those top three wouldn't be involved.

At this moment in time, there are no serious efforts to rewrite any OS in rust, but time will tell and as other "memory safe" languages are on the rise, it may never happen anyway. There is a corporate demand for memory safe languages at the application level - this where the likes of MS and google are focused.

But anyway, back to topic: It appears there are already hard rust depends for Debian?

But what this thread amounts to is complaining about a corporate backed language being adopted in an already corporate controlled distribution which itself distributes a lot of already corporate funded and developed software such as the Linux kernel, X.org, gnome, systemd, wayland, etc. That horse has bolted.

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stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Re: Hard Rust requirements for APT from may next year

^^^re: quoting @blackhole

That horse has bolted

can dead(longtime) horse(bones) bolt? [/sarcasm]

speaking of horse bones

or just bones in general

if everyone cared

haters gonna hate

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spliskin

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Re: Hard Rust requirements for APT from may next year

@greenjeans

timely post

Saw that too.. Just was being nice.

@unixuser

Incredible, what's the point ? Looks totally useless to rewrite working stuff ?

It is not about security, security is how you code, not about the language. C is really secure IF you know how to use it.
It is not about performances

There is no panacea to the issue. It does not make software more or less safe. Either way. Just hope people start paying attention and not jump ship to replace system components with it.

Not when the language itself still leaks memory and it's known, and hasn't been fixed, yet.

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Re: Hard Rust requirements for APT from may next year

Its memory safe and modern

Yes but is it free of evil particles?

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Ron

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Re: Hard Rust requirements for APT from may next year

And then there's this:

Ubuntu's Rust Transition Hits Another Bump as sudo-rs Security Vulnerabilities Show Up