Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-12 Thread Simon Studer
Hi everyone, When I read about Apache's use of rustls I thought of this thread again. For mod_tls, the module itself was written in C linking to the rustls-ffi. I have been wondering if it would be desirable to implement the modules themselves in Rust as well and how you would go about doing

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-12 Thread Stefan Eissing
Hi Simon, > Am 12.05.2022 um 11:28 schrieb Simon Studer : > > Hi everyone, > > When I read about Apache's use of rustls I thought of this thread again. > > For mod_tls, the module itself was written in C linking to the rustls-ffi. I > have been wondering if it would be desirable to implement t

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-12 Thread Simon Studer
Hi Stefan, Thank you for the quick and extensive feedback! To be honest, I was not expecting there to be so many good reasons not to use Rust but I think I see your point that it would be difficult to maintain and that compatibility would absolutely be a concern. From what I gather most of t