Rust is coming to Git

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Interesting points I hadn’t considered. Thanks for the explanation!

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> On Jul 4, 2026, at 10:47 AM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola at libero.it> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Sergey Fedorov wrote:
>> The problem is that rust upstream failed to write a portable compiler. And gcc does not yet have a working front-end.
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> perfect explanation. Or having recent rust on 10.11 MacOS, 10.6 or even PPC wouldn't be a problem.
> gcc could be very promising there.
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>> It is also a bit ridiculous to require LLVM and Rust just to build git.
> 
> indeed. Rust has a lot of other shortcomings, trying to reinvent the wheel; but not the point of this tread, I guess.
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> Riccardo