围绕在 Git 中添加 Rust 的不间断讨论

发布于 2024-12-12

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Rust in Git Project:
- Taylor Blau's View: Listed advantages like memory safety, no data races, easier refactoring. Mentioned questions like language's impact on platform support, which parts to migrate/extend.
- Elijah Newren's View: Excited about the idea. Suggested allowing Rust in optional components like the kernel. Favored it for potential performance improvements from adding parallelism and using more efficient data structures.
- Others' Views: Some like brian m. carlson were in favor but saw obstacles like Rust's rapid release cycle and platform support. Randall Becker was concerned about NonStop platform and Git's wide portability. Junio Hamano wasn't convinced by "investment-related impact" argument.
Git's Platform Support: Lacks a policy. Git has supported NonStop since 2012 but has no clear continuation policy. Different views on how to handle niche platforms like NonStop.
Discussion Outcome: January discussion ended unresolved. September, Blau reopened the topic. Becker pointed out lack of answer on continuing NonStop support. Allred raised concerns about not allowing new languages. Potential Rust port to NonStop is at least a year away and the project is stuck with a tension between different factors.

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