On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:10:39 +0200 Marek Behun <marek.behun@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:33:09 +0200 > Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Actually.. I started something. How do you like Rust? > > > > I've never written anything in Rust. I am not opposed to the language, > since I don't know much about it (although I've heart praise for Rust > from some people), but am not much enthuiastic about this program in > particular to be written in it. > > For embedded systems, for example, gcc was for a long time the only > needed compiler. Now embedded system often need at least > Python/Lua/Perl. If I wanted to embed this ledtool and it is written in > Rust, I will need one more compiler and its environment. > > So if you insist on Rust for ledtool, I will most probably pass, but I > am still interested in working on the kernel part of the LED subsystem. > > Marek > In fact until recently I managed to avoid Rust on my system (Gentoo), and was annoyed when suddenly one library needed Rust as a dependency (librsvg) and Rust had to be installed. Not because of dislike of Rust, but because of dislike of the idea of having compilers for 50 different languages on the system... Marek
