Glad I am not using FreeBSD

Posted Aug 20, 2024 14:44 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Glad I am not using FreeBSD by a12l
Parent article: FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system

If that's true then I have to agree with taladar and repeat after him: I am so glad I am not using FreeBSD anywhere.

Glad I am not using FreeBSD

Posted Aug 20, 2024 15:01 UTC (Tue) by shawn.webb (subscriber, #118686) [Link] (2 responses)

What's wrong with FreeBSD using git? How do you stay away from any project that uses git?

Glad I am not using FreeBSD

Posted Aug 20, 2024 15:23 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

Nothing is wrong with using Git. But asking for a rewrite of a tool that you are no longer using is just dishonest.

Glad I am not using FreeBSD

Posted Aug 21, 2024 7:16 UTC (Wed) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link]

Modula 3 toolchain had been a recurring nightmare for maintainers. Having a critical (at the time) tool written in that was a painful mistake; the real solution was to switch away from CVS and be done with both cvsup and modula 3 support. An intermediate was "fuck that m3 shite, let's rewrite the parts of cvsup we really need in C, so the entire system wouldn't be a hostage of that horror" (csup). I suspect that phk point is not so much a literal requirement for rust-in-core-system advocates as a reminder of the last time when somebody decided that "it's such a nice language" was a sufficient argument for making the system depend on unstable toolchain.

They paid _hard_ for that mistake with m3. Granted, rust toolchain is nowhere near that horror (look it up yourself - it really could be used as an object lesson in how not to do language toolchains), but cvsup story must've left very painful scars.