From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: the importance of rust-build-system [Fwd: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam] Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 00:22:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87r31bg44p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170401075841.242czleuqvibqmjf@abyayala> <20170401185824.GA27445@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuRPf-0006qA-DX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2017 18:22:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cuRPe-0008V9-Kt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2017 18:22:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170401185824.GA27445@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:58:24 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 07:58:41AM +0000, ng0 wrote: >> tor is seriously considering to switch to rust. I have my own open >> bugs / roadmap points which depend on our rust-build-system working. >> tor will not switch immediately, but it shows the importance of having a >> working rust-build-system. Firefox will switch at some point. > > It's immediately important because the latest version of librsvg (used > to create the GuixSD GRUB background image) is written in Rust. We could > even update that package "the hard way", without a full > rust-build-system. For librsvg and Tor, a switch to Rust is both good news and bad news: it=E2=80=99s good news because using a memory-safe language is indeed a wise decision, but it=E2=80=99s bad news because it introduces a single point of trust (opaque Rust binaries built by Mozilla) in our dependency graph. Ludo=E2=80=99.