Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty

From: Florian Märkl <info@florianmaerkl.de>
Date: Sep 20, 2025, 08:24 UTC
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> Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd like to hear what OSes
> and Architectures you use personally and professionally and why adding
> Rust would be a bad idea.

To add some specific cases from my side as well, problematic platforms include Mac OS X on ppc as well as OpenBSD/macppc (32-bit). Both of these are still relevant, as OpenBSD is actively maintained on this architecture and Mac OS X 10.5 is supported by MacPorts, resulting in a system with modern tools that is still able to run and debug certain legacy software.

In particular, in the Rizin project, we use both platforms regularly to test our code for architecture and OS-specific bugs, and we also support them to run Rizin itself for debugging and analyzing software there.

I do not advocate not adopting Rust because of the language itself, but I think it is important to compare the maturity of the compiler and ecosystem to the project that will strictly depend on it.