Rust is coming to Git

Sergey Fedorov vital.had at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 13:45:14 UTC 2026


On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM Link Dupont <link.dupont at mac.com> wrote:

> What is the objection to using Rust? Seems like a fine language to me, and
> delivers some huge safety improvements over languages like C.
>

The problem is that rust upstream failed to write a portable compiler. And
gcc does not yet have a working front-end.

It is also a bit ridiculous to require LLVM and Rust just to build git.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/attachments/20260704/74ec77b9/attachment.htm>


More information about the macports-dev mailing list