[RFC] ping rewrite: can be in Rust?

[pevik]

[RFC] ping rewrite: can be in Rust?

[pevik]

Thanks for your point. ping deserve complete rewrite (the code is very old, hard to maintain). That's why it's IMHO good opportunity to at least think about other alternatives to C, but of course we can endup with keeping C. Rust is far from being perfect, but it it cannot be ignored that it's will be sooner or later safer C alternative.

And even if the rewrite will be in C, it would be a separate project (e.g. ping2) and the original ping will be maintained until the new project is mature enough. This would be for sure the same even if it's written in Rust (e.g. rping).

[nmeyerhans]

This was previously discussed in #96. The primary issue raised there was about architecture support; Rust does not necessarily support all architectures supported by Linux. So this means that the C version would still need to be supported for some time either way. Though I suspect Linux and Rust to converge on a single set of supported architectures over time.

[yvs2014]

downside of rust is lack of

from my subjective view on rewritting in Rust:
C language is simple and efficient with consistent ABI and easy integrable with different build systems. Replacement of a working tool rewritting it in a busybox style with a way more complex language for sake of ???, IDK if that worths it even for C++ or new projects.