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On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 03:17:28PM +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote: > Hello, > regarding this proposal: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2020-October/224639.html > > Alyssa, Rust is not "naturally fit for graphics driver > development" since it's not as universally available as > C/C++ in terms of mature compilers; you're basically > trying to put a cart before a horse, which will just > put more pressure on both Rust developers team *and* > on those of us working on non-x86 arches capable of > driving modern GPUs with Mesa. > > For one, I'm porting ALT Linux onto e2k platform > (there's only an early non-optimizing version of > Rust port there by now), and we're maintaining repos > for aarch64, armv7hf, ppc64el, mipsel, and riscv64 either > -- none of which seem to be described as better than > "experimental" at http://doc.rust-lang.org/core/arch page > in terms of Rust support. > > And there's another problem: no kind of tooling helps > careless developers avoid mistakes as many previous > silver bullet candidates have shown already; some of > those only made things actually worse. > > I am no Mesa developer, my closest contribution to it > is probably an LLVM patch proposal. But I've seen > enough deterioration brought with the best intents > of course -- both in free software during last ten > years or so and in real life (I used to live in Kiev > but not anymore, Denis can witness that if needed). > > PS: feel free to CC: mesa-dev@, of course. > > -- > ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin / http://altlinux.org > ------ http://opennet.ru / http://anna-news.info _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
