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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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.
Well it's certainly not worse than c, and it's hard to argue it's as bad, so...
> I don't think merely moving to Rust makes Tor faster either.
It would be crazy to think switching languages would make a network protocol faster without some evidence of this.
Except in regards to having a proper standard (the standard from Ferrocene has significant issues), and to the size of the language and how easy it is to implement a compiler for.
There are a lot of differences and trade-offs.
Ahh here you are speaking nonsense again. We ain't talking formal logic, we're speaking human to human
> For instance, building a large project in a language with only one major compiler, can introduce risk.
Ok let's introduce an alternative to gcc then
> But Steve Klabnik will lie about that
You seem fine to both tarnish the reputation of, erm, c defenders with your own actions and to slander the reputation of Klabnik (or "lie" as I'm sure you'd term it), who both speaks more coherently and with his own name. Why do this in the name of open source if you have nothing to contribute, knowing that you're setting your own project back?
I have been a fan of gccrs the entire time.