[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/29/22 20:46, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/29/2022 8:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/29/22 20:11, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>                      But even though Microsoft and Linux are
>>> pretty far from each other in many aspects then they do share
>>> an interest in looking at Rust as replacement for C.
>>
>> I will not be holding my breathe waiting for Unix to be re-written
>> in Rust.
> 
> Old commercial Unix'es will not be rewritten. Thee will be lucky
> if they are even maintained.

Real Unix is still alive and well and being maintained at least as good 
as Linux.

> 
> But Linux is pretty serious about rust.

Wouldn't be the first mistake they have made.

> 
> And the open source Unix world are "flirting a little bit"
> with rust as well. FreeBSD has added support for
> drivers in Rust and they have some userland stuff
> in Rust in their ports collection.

Sorry to hear that.

> 
> But it would be very unhealthy to hold ones breath until Rust
> takes over from C.

C will still be around long after Rust is nothing but a vague
memory.

bill