Sad Clouds <cryintotheblue...@gmail.com> writes: >> The idea of having to build rust to get a "less resource demanding >> implementation" would be great comedy if it weren't such a serious >> problem. > > The Mercurial developers have an opinion that it is very difficult to > develop and maintain reliable software in C. So the search goes on for > the silver bullet - Python, Rust, Go, etc.
Sure - but my point is that rust is extremely difficult to deal with, and is basically impossible on low-resource machines or unusual architectures. For those who haven't been following along, there has been basicallya continuous tale of woe in pkgsrc-land for the last 6 months at least, and perhaps that's fairly said to be multiple years. So the idea that Johnny can build rust on his vax and then use some hg-rust on it would be laughable, if it didn't point out that the people deciding to use rust appear not to care about anything other than a handful of OS/CPU types.
