Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Mattias Schlenker
Am 14.11.19 um 23:33 schrieb Markus Gothe: 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. [...] Busybox

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Markus Gothe
You think of the utterly horrible golang aka "go" stuff being static, rust has a very correct approach and supports DSOs. //M Sent from my BlackBerry — the most secure mobile device   Original Message   From: eschwa...@archlinux.org Sent: 15 November 2019 01:35 To:

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Eli Schwartz
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

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Hi all! On 14/11/2019 23:45, Samuel Ainsworth wrote: [...] > I hadn’t thought about the license situation yet. I’m not a lawyer but I’m > not sure how the license situation would work since this is kind of a Ship of > Theseus situation. Whatever "Ship of Theseus situation" is and/or means in

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Markus Gothe
Yeah, in case you got me wrong; I endorse the experiment. It is an experiment that fits busybox so well! Good job there! Don't get me wrong. I like this and what I see coming from it. However I am of the opinion of that a successful "experiment" should come some more, don't you agree? So go

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread email
On 14.11.2019 14:00, Samuel Ainsworth wrote: Hello BusyBox overlords, This week I thought it would be interesting to try porting busybox to Rust with c2rust. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it actually worked. I thought the results might be interesting to the BusyBox team as well.

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Samuel Ainsworth
Hi Daniel, Thanks for bringing that to my attention! I tried to give the busybox team a shoutout in the README as well as in the binary “help” page as much as possible. If there are any specific people I should mention, please do let me know! I’d really like to give you guys all the credit you

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Samuel Ainsworth
In case the subject of my previous email was not explicit enough: This is an “experimental fork” written in Rust. I repeat: it is an experiment. Best, Samuel > On Nov 14, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Markus Gothe wrote: > > That's so fucked up in every sane way possible. Seek medical help ASAP. :-) >

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Markus Gothe
That's so fucked up in every sane way possible. Seek medical help ASAP. :-) Just kidding. But here is a rant of intelligence on the matter, hope you get me as mostly joking when being a jack ass. ;-)  It's a little tongue-in-cheek.How do you think that fatso library aptly named librust would fit

rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Samuel Ainsworth
Hello BusyBox overlords, This week I thought it would be interesting to try porting busybox to Rust with c2rust. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it actually worked. I thought the results might be interesting to the BusyBox team as well. I have no idea if the core team is interested