On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 05:11:28PM -0000, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Why not Haskell?
Seriously: you provide no reason for rust other than that "C is not
attractive".
C is surely a reliable implementation language for long running system services.
I love C myself and spend my days writing C. But we already have
plenty of generators written in C in the systemd codebase. This is
about looking for new options, with easier memory management, easier
IO, easier error handling.
Rust is a nice modern language with a lot of promise. It seems well
suited for the purpose of low-level systems programming where one
needs fairly close control over IO error handling.
Zbyszek