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FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system
The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first discussion included some work by Alan Somers to show what it might look like to use Rust code in the base tree.
The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. Dimitry Andric wrote that it might be possible to build Rust using FreeBSD's base version of LLVM, but he said that the discussion was going in the wrong direction. The solution, he said, is not to add Rust to src, but to " get rid of the 'Src is the holy ivory tower, everything else is barbarians' mentality" that has caused FreeBSD trouble over the years.
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