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Dumb package that selects and installs a binary rust distribution based on its guess of your platform (FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux x86_64 are all supported). These binaries are the official ones provided by rust upstream and are the same as those provided by the `rustup` tool. You can choose to use a binary rust distribution by setting: RUST_TYPE=bin in mk.conf (or source distribution with RUST_TYPE=src). Currently, RUST_TYPE=bin by default ONLY for NetBSD-x86_64. This is because TNF has been shown to _repeatedly_ be unable and _unwilling_ to ensure that rust-dependent packages build properly on their infrastructure, and NetBSD users are all suffering for it. This was based on minskim's work in pkgsrc-wip. It was tested by building librsvg and firefox-esr with the resulting binaries.
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Rust is a systems programming language focused on three goals: safety,
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speed, and concurrency. It maintains these goals without having a
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garbage collector, making it a useful language for a number of use cases
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other languages aren't good at: embedding in other languages, programs
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with specific space and time requirements, and writing low-level code,
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like device drivers and operating systems.
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It improves on current languages targeting this space by having a number
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of compile-time safety checks that produce no runtime overhead, while
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eliminating all data races. Rust also aims to achieve "zero-cost
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abstractions" even though some of these abstractions feel like those of
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a high-level language. Even then, Rust still allows precise control
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like a low-level language would.
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This package installs a released binary.
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