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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: 0.194s | 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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1. timeon ◴[14 Dec 25 11:08 UTC] No.46262252[source]▶
This is legit question, especially for Tor binaries.

Advantage of Rust (or original C implementation) is for users that do not have runtime and want to import Tor libraries (like arti-client) in their code. Go could work but those unmanaged languages are better here. So in the end Rust (or C, C++ etc.) can serve more user-cases.