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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: 0.208s | 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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pezezin ◴[12 Dec 25 13:59 UTC] No.46244203[source]▶
Portable to what? Rust works fine on all of today's popular platforms.

I see people complaining about Rust's lack of portability, and it is always some obsolete platform that has been dead for 20 years. Let's be serious, nobody is gonna run Tor on an old SGI workstation or Itanium server.

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1. vablings ◴[12 Dec 25 15:15 UTC] No.46244882[source]▶
It is still possible to build for targets such as Itanium. There is nothing stopping you from writing your own targets too in LLVM and its not obscenely difficult

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/llvm/lib/Targ...