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average-vr-56795

02/12/2019, 11:30 PM
https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython I haven't looked at all closely, but an interesting project
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hundreds-father-404

02/12/2019, 11:41 PM
I would love in 10 years for most core infrastructure / tools like CPython and Linux kernel to be built with Rust.
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bitter-piano-88933

02/13/2019, 4:15 PM
Indeed! Those two projects don't sound like they would be ported to rust thought ... Especially linux, but there are rumours that fuschia has some rust...
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hundreds-father-404

02/13/2019, 4:38 PM
The key issue I imagine would be difficulty in migrating incrementally. Any big rewrite is doomed to fail. Is it easy to half half your code in C and half in Rust? For example does everything have to be serialized? Also rust still only works with LLVM, right?
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bitter-piano-88933

02/13/2019, 4:44 PM
Not sure about the llvm portion, but I remember vlc experimenting with replacing some libs with rust versions: http://dev.unhandledexpression.com/slides/rustconf-2016/vlc/
I guess as long as you doing dynamic linking compiler is not so much of an issue
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aloof-angle-91616

02/15/2019, 3:19 AM
there were lots of fuschia discussions at the webassembly meetup a month ago at mozilla