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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 4 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.705s | 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. anthk ◴[12 Dec 25 20:18 UTC] No.46248342[source]▶
Not under OpenBSD i686.

Also, the more heterogeneous it's a CPU architecture support, the least exploitable a service will be.

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2. krior ◴[12 Dec 25 20:51 UTC] No.46248765[source]▶
Please elaborate on your last point.
3. pezezin ◴[12 Dec 25 23:10 UTC] No.46250174[source]▶
See? This is exactly my point. The last 32-bit only Intel CPUs were the original Intel Core series. Core 2 was already 64-bit, and it was released in 2006.

i686 should have died a long, long time ago.

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4. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[14 Dec 25 06:33 UTC] No.46261202[source]▶
No, the last 32-bit-only Intel CPUs were Atom models in ... I think we decided 2011 last time this came up.