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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: 0.199s | 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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1. anthk ◴[12 Dec 25 20:21 UTC] No.46248385[source]▶
No Rust under OpenBSD i686. Rust on PowerMacs? Alpha?