What is this rubbish? We have "media" coverage trying to stir up drama about what happens on mailing lists now?
Go and read the thread yourself [1] and you will see that the reason it was rejected was that no one saw a reason to take on the maintenance burden when you already need to have Gnu Core Utilities in ports to be able to build a heap of other ports. Focusing on theo@ calling out the submitter for having their judgement clouded by "Because Rust" misses the point.
Besides, Rust already has a solid presence in ports and I know several experienced OpenBSD developers dabbling in it. But the language will never make it into base in its current form as OpenBSD expects self hosting and I think everything in base is Posix(-like), apart from Perl, but I have not taken the time to go digging through my /usr/src.
There's also a pile of odd things about the article:
> OpenBSD 7.6 shipped in October 2024; 7.7 is expected in April 2025.
> As of 2024, it passes the majority of GNU coreutils test suites
This is for an article dated September 2026. It's not obviously AI-written but the dates are completely out of sync, it's like a lot of it was written in 2024 and then other bits were added a week ago. A quick Google of the author's name also doesn't turn up anything that could be her, so possibly it is just AI slop.
ninjin · · focus · HN ↗
Go and read the thread yourself [1] and you will see that the reason it was rejected was that no one saw a reason to take on the maintenance burden when you already need to have Gnu Core Utilities in ports to be able to build a heap of other ports. Focusing on theo@ calling out the submitter for having their judgement clouded by "Because Rust" misses the point.
[1]: <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/msg143875.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/msg143875.htm...
Besides, Rust already has a solid presence in ports and I know several experienced OpenBSD developers dabbling in it. But the language will never make it into base in its current form as OpenBSD expects self hosting and I think everything in base is Posix(-like), apart from Perl, but I have not taken the time to go digging through my /usr/src.
pseudohadamard · · focus · HN ↗
> OpenBSD 7.6 shipped in October 2024; 7.7 is expected in April 2025.
> As of 2024, it passes the majority of GNU coreutils test suites
This is for an article dated September 2026. It's not obviously AI-written but the dates are completely out of sync, it's like a lot of it was written in 2024 and then other bits were added a week ago. A quick Google of the author's name also doesn't turn up anything that could be her, so possibly it is just AI slop.