Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports

Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by loeg on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:04PM (#45784369)

We have an alternative that isn't 10x slower, and comes with many other benefits (Rust). The only cost is losing hardware support for some very obsolete and very unpopular platforms. (Nevermind that Fil-C's hardware support is narrower than Rust's.)

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by ChocolateGod on Saturday November 01, 2025 @09:05PM (#45787011)

Rust doesn't automatically add memory safety to all existing C code, which will need to be maintained for decades, Fil-C nearly does and its still early days.

> We have an alternative that isn't 10x slower, and comes with many other benefits

Anyone involved with development around a fruity company would say Swift ;)

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by loeg on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:16AM (#45788444)

I don't get the impression the Swift team is especially interested in use cases outside of OS X and iOS. (The context here is Debian.)

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by ChocolateGod on Sunday November 02, 2025 @07:05AM (#45789713)

There seems to be a push to get Swift outside of just Apples platforms, namely Linux and Android support and backend micro service developnent.

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