For the longest time, people said they couldn't support Windows because there was no equiv of epoll/kqueue. False: IOCP can shim it.
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It would literally be a one-liner in Rust so there's no need for it ;) targeting software that can't yet integrate Rust into their toolchain
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(Which btw if you want to talk about OS distribution is basically "everything that targets any Linux or BSD" but that's another rant)
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.c and .h is a good enough packaging then, yes.
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Are you just saying Rust can't target FreeBSD?
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It can in the relatively trivial sense of compiling and running, but try getting a Rust library into ports / apt / yum / etc
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I think that's because of legacy bureaucracy rather than real technical limitations. I'm not saying it's not needed at all, but rather ...
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that some crufty ideology around what qualifies as a "well behaved package" is in need of some review.
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Perhaps. I think dynamic linking still has its place... It's nice to not recompile the world for the weekly curl CVE!
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