rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

David Demelier markand at malikania.fr
Fri Nov 15 12:41:52 UTC 2019


Le 15/11/2019 à 01:29, Eli Schwartz a écrit :
> On 11/14/19 5:33 PM, Markus Gothe wrote:
>> How do you think that fatso library aptly named librust would fit into any
>> modest embedded system? Well it doesn't and you never thought of that in the
>> first place which makes the rest of your assumptions more damaging than any good.
> 
> I was under the impression that rust programs don't depend on librust at
> all, due to being statically compiled. My instinctive reaction to
> porting anything to rust would instead first center around "is rust
> itself portable?"

No, it's quite limited in term of supported platforms. Also 
bootstrapping rust on non standard systems is a pain in the butt. To be 
honest, I don't understand why so much people love rust.

-- 
David


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