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Re:Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? by supdog on Monday October 05, 2015 @03:10PM (#10334058)
From what I understand, Rust is not making in-roads into the OpenBSD world for at least these reasons:

1) Rust's use of LLVM means it will not work on some hardware platforms that the OpenBSD folks are committed to run on.

2) The Rust project currently does not offer a long term support release.

These are important to the OpenBSD team. Additionally, I am sure that they value the memory safety that Rust offers.

I wonder if the OpenBSD team would ever design a systems language?

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Re:Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? by rhelmer on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:23PM (#10335058)
Note I said "BSD World" :) FreeBSD is already using LLVM (Clang) instead of GCC, and support fewer platforms - I think this would be a more pragmatic place to push something new like Rust.

If it works out there, OpenBSD could audit and import things at their leisure, at least in theory.

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Re:Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? by digitalzombie on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:21AM (#10336880)
Why didn't they just use Ada then? Ada have been long before Rust and is a good alternative to C.
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