FreeBSD 也要 “锈化”？团队称考虑在基础系统采用 Rust

FreeBSD 开发者正在考虑允许在 FreeBSD 基础系统中使用 Rust 编程语言的好处和成本。

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-January/002823.html

邮件写道，在 FreeBSD 基础系统使用 Rust 的主要缺点是构建时间加倍。这是因为需要编译基于 LLVM 的 Rustc 编译器和 Rust 的所有附加功能，这些操作使得基础系统的构建时间大约是当前的两倍。

如果 FreeBSD 基础系统采用了 Rust，开发者可以重新 Rust 重写许多组件 —— 而不是使用 C++，例如 ZFS 守护进程 (zfsd)、重写 devd、WiFi 用户空间代码也可以受益于用 Rust 编写，等等。列举部分如下：

* ctl-exporter (I started this, but discovered that the CTL stats API is

unstable, so it can't live in ports.  Instead, I had to do it in C).

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/1a7f22d9c211f504f6c48a86401469181a67ec34

* fusefs tests.  Absolutely impossible to do in C.  I considered Rust, but went

with C++ so they could live in base.  They are too closely coupled to

fusefs(5) to live out-of-tree.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/tests/sys/fs/fusefs

* devd.  Currently C++, but imp suggested a rewrite.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/sbin/devd

* zfsd.  Currently C++, but I've long pondered a rewrite.  Using Rust would

make it more testable.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/cddl/usr.sbin/zfsd

* nscd.  Currently C, but confusing and with no test coverage.  I've

contemplated a rewrite myself, but I don't want to do it in C.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/usr.sbin/nscd

* The userland portion of the 802.11ac and Lightning stacks.  scottl suggested

that these were good candidates for Rust.

* freebsd-kpi-r14-0 .  https://crates.io/crates/freebsd-kpi-r14-0