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It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

by smatija on 9/4/24, 11:24 AM with 43 comments

• by klez on 9/4/24, 12:00 PM

  I'm not sure I understood what this was all about. I guess I'm missing some context. Can someone please help me understand?

• by irdc on 9/4/24, 12:02 PM

  Putting all of a BSD in separate packages is going to make evolving the various parts together more difficult. See for instance the ease with which OpenBSD does ABI changes (I know FreeBSD doesn’t do that, just an illustration).

• by vermaden on 9/4/24, 2:33 PM

  Why have LLVM in FreeBSD Base System if I have to add additional LLVM by Ports or package?

      % pkg info|grep Clang 
      llvm15-15.0.7_10               LLVM and Clang
  

  IMHO both Rust and LLVM should be OUT of Base System.

• by Y_Y on 9/4/24, 11:57 AM

  I wonder if they could use tcc or similar and get a reasonable system. Hopefully someone familiar with BSD can expand on the quest for a suitably licensed compiler.