Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-08 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
Hal, on the Rust v Go issue. I am speaking as a consumer of your code, who builds from source. There is talk on the LKML, about adding Rust as an allowed language. There seems to be no objection in principle, work is proceeding. Much of my knowledge of Rust is from those threads, The issue I h

Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > Thanks for taking the time to explain things to me. Why would I not? It's *good* to have someone on the projects who's sufficiently smart and stubborn to question my premises - please never stop doing that! I know more about the problems around getting to a memory-safe language a

Re: Using Go for NTPsec

2021-07-08 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> No, I'm pushing Rust away - and determined to exit from C - because of > reasons in the larger context. We need to get to a memory-safe language, we > need decadal stability, and we need one with a reasonably low barrier to > entry for new devs. > Rust fails two of those tests. Go passes all