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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by preisschild on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:30AM (#46243943)
What do you mean? Rust supports far more platforms.

Also Rust has a lot more inherent safety features than go.

(I think Go is great and its my primary language)

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by superkuh on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:35AM (#46243976)
In terms of compilation of programs Go is far, far easier than Rust. For Rust to compile a random Rust program on the internet one almost always has to have the absolutely latest out of repo compiler toolchain from curl rustup.whatever | sh. The normal 4 year release cycle is incompatible with rust development. For commercial use cases this doesn't matter. But for open source like the tor project it does.

That said, since they use Firefox this bridge has already been burned.

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by norman784 on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:39AM (#46244012)
AFAIK if the project has a rust-toolchain.toml[0] file, cargo will download the correct compiler for the project.

[0] https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#the-toolch...

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Re:The Tor Project is switching to Rust by anthk on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:21PM (#46248385)
No Rust under OpenBSD i686. Rust on PowerMacs? Alpha?
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