Rust on FreeBSD

[Greg_M]

I'm interested in using Rust on FreeBSD. Rust FreeBSD is Tier 2. Should this be any cause of concern or is it mainly simply a matter of the logistics of establishing FreeBSD CI for the standard Rust test suites?

 

[cracauer@]

We have tiers for programming languages?

Rust should work just fine most of the time because it is needed by quite a few ports. If Rust breaks a lot of people get notified.

 

[zzfs6]

The tiers are the Rust foundation's. Tier two is "gaurenteed to build". It looks like the only difference between tiers is how much attention they get from the Rust foundation.

 

[tingo]

most of the time, it is some crate (aka library) that a project is using which breaks / does not build on FreeBSD. Very often the fix is known (or very easy). I've had good success with writing a PR / bug report against such crates, and gotten them fixed so they build on FreeBSD. YMMV.

 

[Dereckson]

Rust on FreeBSD is comfortable to use.

You can install it without issue with rustup.

Several of us will fix anything Linux-centric in Rust build mechanisms (see for example two of my commits against rust language repository here and here from 2017)

When I needed a solution we can call both from CLI and HTTP API to trigger a deployment, I wrote Rust code to explicitly target FreeBSD servers without any hesitation: https://devcentral.nasqueron.org/source/alkane/

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The issues you could encounter in the past are for crates targeting libc to do OS-specific things, or with heuristics for every OS, but nowadays, FreeBSD support has been added to most of them.