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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.194s | source
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anthk ◴[12 Dec 25 13:25 UTC] No.46243905[source]▶
Why not Go? It's more portable.
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preisschild ◴[12 Dec 25 13:30 UTC] No.46243943[source]▶
What do you mean? Rust supports far more platforms.

Also Rust has a lot more inherent safety features than go.

(I think Go is great and its my primary language)

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superkuh ◴[12 Dec 25 13:35 UTC] No.46243976[source]▶
In terms of compilation of programs Go is far, far easier than Rust. For Rust to compile a random Rust program on the internet one almost always has to have the absolutely latest out of repo compiler toolchain from curl rustup.whatever | sh. The normal 4 year release cycle is incompatible with rust development. For commercial use cases this doesn't matter. But for open source like the tor project it does.

That said, since they use Firefox this bridge has already been burned.

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1. norman784 ◴[12 Dec 25 13:39 UTC] No.46244012[source]▶
AFAIK if the project has a rust-toolchain.toml[0] file, cargo will download the correct compiler for the project.

[0] https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#the-toolch...