[Evergreen-dev] OpenSRF / Redis / Rust

[Blake Graham-Henderson]

All,

Sorry to say +1, but +1. I've been convinced that Rust is great. All the 
news and articles I've read over the years do seem convincing. I like 
that this move would be "keeping up" with the times. It doesn't seem 
like Rust is going to be short-lived. Our project is old, I think it 
could use a little modernizing. I'd say adoption of Rust would put 
OpenSRF (and by association, Evergreen) in a "more attractive" position 
within the Open Source communities. The downside, it seems, would be 
another dependency. And it would be an "add" and not a "replace" unless 
we could remove gcc. But it seems that gcc is shipped with most distros.

-Blake-
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On 5/31/2023 10:08 AM, Jason Boyer via Evergreen-dev wrote:
> I'm also largely ok with it, provided we do what we can to keep 
> external crate use to a minimum. I don't know what Rust is doing to 
> avoid their own version of NPM's "ldap moment" (or ansi-color or 
> whatever that bit us directly) but I'd rather not find out first-hand.
>
> Unfortunately while I have had interest in learning more with Rust but 
> haven't been able to actually make the time to do it. I suppose this 
> would finally give me more incentive. :)
>
> I know "should we replace all of the 'C'?" wasn't really Bill's 
> original question but I do think that we're more likely to find 
> folks that can(or more quickly learn) to write correct and safe Rust 
> than C in the long run.
>
> Jason
>
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>> On May 31, 2023, at 9:53 AM, Jason Stephenson via Evergreen-dev 
>> <evergreen-dev at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> I am OK with adopting Rust as a supported language.  I might even be 
>> in favor of replacing all of our C code with Rust eventually.
>>
>> I have not done anything with Rust so far.  I have been meaning to 
>> try it out.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason Stephenson
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