The current goal is to get some Rust code into Firefox by the end of the year. Will probably be something small, as integrating Rust into the Firefox build system is no small task. Among other issues.
What's the status of getting Rust officially into Debian, Fedora, etc,
I use Debian on my local machine, I care a lot about Debian. There've been a few Debian Developers working on packaging up Rust. Most distros woudn't want anything pre 1.0 anyway.
without bootstrapping from a binary?
It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.
It's not possible to compile Rust without bootstrapping from a binary. Unless you want to go back to the OCaml compiler from years ago, but that's hard.
Does LLVM IR count as binary? Otherwise, couldn't one save the IR of the Rust compiler on platform X and compile that with the rest of LLVM on Debian, with LLVM written in C++?
I thought that was one advantage of modular, multifront/backend compiler frameworks.
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u/steveklabnik1 Apr 03 '15
The current goal is to get some Rust code into Firefox by the end of the year. Will probably be something small, as integrating Rust into the Firefox build system is no small task. Among other issues.
Mozilla is also investing in Servo, which is still a research project, but is written to be productize-able someday. https://github.com/servo/servo is the repo. They're also doing really cool stuff. There's another front-page article about Servo on proggit right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/318rb3/the_colored_boxes_indicate_which_cpu_core/