Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo [LWN.net]

Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Posted Feb 11, 2021 14:38 UTC (Thu) by tlamp (subscriber, #108540)
In reply to: Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo by glaubitz
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So another commenter stated[0] how painful it is to port rust to another platform - can you, which is doing an actual port, please comment on that? (out of pure interest).

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/845637/

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Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo

Posted Feb 15, 2021 8:58 UTC (Mon) by glaubitz (subscriber, #96452) [Link]

> So another commenter stated[0] how painful it is to port rust to another platform - can you, which is doing an actual port, please comment on that? (out of pure interest).

If the new platform is just a new Linux architecture, the port is pretty much straight-forward and easy provided that LLVM has a backend for the architecture.

I cannot comment onto ports for new operating systems as I haven't worked on this myself.