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Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by symlinkk on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:35PM (#29930316)
So basically it’s not Rust.
Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by cowsandmilk on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:12AM (#29932242)
How pure does your program have to be to be rust for you? How few libraries in C or C++ must it call? The developers are writing all their code in rust, so it is in rust…
Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by symlinkk on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:03PM (#29937784)
It’s a UI library that’s showing UI controls that are written in C. It’s dishonest to call it Rust because it wraps those controls in a layer of Rust
Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment by southerntofu on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:35AM (#29934252)
By that standard no binary that links against glibc, whether originally written in rust or go, is in fact rust or go.