Re: Planned obsolescence ? (*BSD, Rust)

On 11/3/25 16:16, David Starner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM Jan-Daniel Kaplanski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That said, 20 year old hardware that is still in-use today by a reasonably large amount of users isn't something I'd consider ancient or retro.
> 
> Yes, 20 year old hardware is looking ancient and retro.

     Firstly a RPi5 is cute and hardly able to compete with a server that
has 256G of memory and many processor cores. So if you are thinking just
plain raw computational throughput the RPi5 is what it is. Cute.

     Building RUST from source is a bit of a sham. A cute trick. Watch
this as I pull a rabbit from my hat. Based on my observations with the
latest top-of-the-line cadillac hardware for RISC-V one must fetch a
static binary built somewhere magic in order to build rust. Then the
hardware will thrash for four days. Maybe six days[1]. The same would be
true on any hardware that is ten years old. I can demonstrate that test
easily enough. So the "Great RUST Invasion" into source code all over
the place[2] will demand that rust be built all over the place. Planned
obsolescence? More like enforced obsolescence and hey you! Pay up more
money and buy more hardware!


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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken


[1] on the horrific SiFive UnMatched RevB board :

===>  Cleaning for rust-1.89.0
build of lang/rust | rust-1.89.0 ended at Fri Sep 12 19:09:59 UTC 2025
build time: 6D:01:19:22


[2] emacs ?  yes emacs wants a bit of rust. When trying to build
     some packages I see that a ton of them need rust.

  The Great RUST Invasion is everywhere
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chafa-1.16.2_1
emacs-30.2,3
fastfetch-2.53.0
gnome-themes-extra-3.28_5
gtk3-3.24.51
ImageMagick7-7.1.1.45_4
imlib2-1.12.5_1,2
librsvg2-rust-2.60.0_6
lxappearance-obconf-0.2.3_8
lxde-common-0.99.2_3
lxde-meta-1.0_8
obconf-2.0.4_7
openbox-3.6_14
qt6-base_sqldriver-sqlite-6.9.3
qt6-base-6.9.3_1
qt6-declarative-6.9.3
qt6-languageserver-6.9.3
qt6-shadertools-6.9.3
qt6-svg-6.9.3
qt6-tools-6.9.3
sddm-0.21.0.36_1
xscreensaver-6.12