> On Mar 16, 2017, at 10:43, Gregory Szorc <gregory.sz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Last time we had the Rust discussion, we couldn't ship Rust due to distro > packaging support. Has that changed?
My gut feeling with my maintainer hat on is that any rust speedups would need to be opt-in, much like today's C speedups. My understanding of Rust is that it'll have significantly fewer ABI woes for our needs than C++ might. > FWIW, Firefox appears to be driving a lot of distro support for Rust. Firefox > 54+ now require Rust to build. Furthermore, Firefox is pretty aggressive > about adopting new versions of Rust. What this means is that the next Firefox > ESR (after 52, which was released last week) will effectively require distros > to support whatever version of Rust that ESR is using. I'm not exactly where > distros are w.r.t. Rust support today. But the major ones all know they need > to get their Rust story in order for the next Firefox ESR, which I think is > sometime in 2018. Ask me over beers what those conversations were like :)
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