I have just discovered what a threat to Free software Rust is. It makes systemd look trivial.
I have come across its tentacles on another OS, where I have an automated build program which can build 144/145 packages in under half an hour, but one of them is written in Rust, so Rust must be built first, and rust takes over three hours. This will make maintenance of repos unmanageable if programs like that are allowed into the ecosystem. Free Software builders just won't be able to cope.
Clamav is the latest culprit. I have that on my mail servers to provide protection to my Windows-using clients, but I need to find an alternative fast now it's written in Rust.
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