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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: 0s | source
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shevy-java ◴[12 Dec 25 13:02 UTC] No.46243731[source]▶
Hmmmm.

My biggest gripe with the Tor project is that it is so slow.

I don't think merely moving to Rust makes Tor faster either. And I am also not entirely convinced that Rust is really better than C.

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dodomodo ◴[12 Dec 25 13:06 UTC] No.46243757[source]▶
I believe that the slowness is a matter of the amount nodes in the tor network, not something that can be fixed solely by code changes.

No one is claiming the new version is faster, only that it is safer.

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1. agumonkey ◴[12 Dec 25 13:44 UTC] No.46244066[source]▶
completely agree but it could be added that a new language can sometimes help explore new ideas faster, in which case maybe the routing layer and protocol can see new optimizations