Wait until he discovers that CPython is actually taking Rust in, see recent PyCon talks on the matter.

t43562 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, optionally apparently but I think we'll end up with forks of Python if the Rust enthusiasts push it any further. I think the option will be off for me.

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woodruffw an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I think mgorny is aware of that; he’s been active on the relevant DPO threads.

(At the end of the day, this is exactly what support tiers are for. CPython, at least to my eyes, has been very transparent about not guaranteeing support for every platform that has a C compiler.)

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t43562 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

I found this recently - couldn't compile it on HPUX. Trying to get rust on there would have been an absolute impossibility of course. I can get bash though, and lots of other GNU utilities - all written in C of course. Thank goodness some people care!

People who don't care about HPUX will never care about it but they would if e.g. we decided that only windows and Ubuntu were supported ... except for the windows and ubuntu python users who wouldn't care.

It's I'm-all-right Jack until it's your use case that gets bulleted.

	▲	collinfunk a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		Hi, one of the co-maintainers of GNU coreutils here. It is nice to hear things worked on HP-UX. I don't have access to it, and I don't think the other maintainers do either. See this commit [1]. [1] https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/commit/c599eba7bed3baa30...