Hi all,
So it's been a while since I pushed this, but again, I think I want to bring
this up. I'd like to write the new logging backend in Rust.
I'll start with a summary:
Pros:
* Faster development time due to stricter code correctness guarantees
* Modern and safe language to lower number of bugs in implementation
* Much better libraries for interacting with things like json and thread safety
Cons:
* Another language in the codebase ...
* We need to learn it to work on it
* Vendors need to be ready to build with the toolchain
I've talked through some of these thoughts with Mark a bit, and I really think
it's time we did this - or gave up on pursuing it. I have been running the rust
enabled version of ds for a few years now with no issues. SUSE is also in a
position where they are able to and ready to build DS with Rust (I'm assuming
RH could easily also be brought to parity here).
So the main barrier becomes us: the most common argument is we don't know
enough or have enough experience. However I think this argument is flawed, in
the fact that there are many parts of the code where we already only have 1 or
2 experts in that area - often when we look into a bug or a feature, we always
have to learn new things, we have to read the code, understand even the unique
styles of how that was written for the time, and then do work. This would be no
different. I think we are all capable of learning and working with these tools.
By this point, Gnome is looking into Rust as a mainline part of the desktop,
Samba has started to look into it, Firefox is already shipping Rust components.
I think that Rust is here to stay, and is not some passing trend.
So what do we think? I think if there are no major objections I would like to
do this in Rust. I'll also commit to providing C-Rust FFI documentation for the
team, resources to help understand what's going on, and like always, I will be
sure to comment all my code thoroughly as part of this improvement.
—
Sincerely,
William Brown
Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server
SUSE Labs
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