Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-17 Thread Harald van Dijk
On 16/11/2019 12:01, Laurent Bercot wrote:  The busybox mailing-list has managed, for the most part, to stay clear of language flamewars during all these years. FWIW, I considered the message to which I responded, that I disagreed with, entirely reasonable. It stated goals for busybox and

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-16 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Hi all! On 14/11/2019 23:33, 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.

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-16 Thread Jody Bruchon
This is the sort of response I wanted to write but did not have time to, so thank you for punching it out. I agree wholeheartedly. Don't burn people for trying new things and playing with code and languages and such. At the same time, acknowledge that what's being made is a toy, an experiment,

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-16 Thread Laurent Bercot
The busybox mailing-list has managed, for the most part, to stay clear of language flamewars during all these years. Of course, blips happen now and then. A few years ago, the fashionable language was Go, so inevitably, someone wrote "Gobox", because of course they did. For the most part, we

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-15 Thread Harald van Dijk
On 15/11/2019 00:29, Eli Schwartz wrote: 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

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-15 Thread Tim Tassonis
On 11/14/19 11:00 PM, 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

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-15 Thread Tim Tassonis
On 11/14/19 11:00 PM, 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

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-15 Thread David Demelier
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

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
o: busybox@busybox.net Subject: Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust 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 > firs

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
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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
insane > ways possible. > > So keep this "law of the instrument / golden hammer" to new code you actually > write AND test. > > //M > > Sent from my BlackBerry — the most secure mobile device > From: skainswo...@gmail.com <mailto:skainswo...@gmail.com> >

Re: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

2019-11-14 Thread Markus Gothe
the most secure mobile device From: skainswo...@gmail.comSent: 14 November 2019 23:00To: busybox@busybox.netSubject: rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust Hello BusyBox overlords,This week I thought it would be interesting

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