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[-] rushaction@programming.dev -2 points 9 months ago

Every time I see a project decide to use rust I groan knowing my build/packaging time is about to skyrocket. Case in point, the Python cryptography project.

And given cryptography's importance in the Python ecosystem what used to be an easy pip install of a package now almost always going to include is an enormous and horribly slow rust build environment.

Seeing a rust libraryjust makes me sad now 😭

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I seem to recall when the switch was made it took me about a week to figure out how get it to work on OpenBSD, because the Rust build step failed there (for a reason I can't remember now).

[-] rushaction@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Yeeap. My FreeBSD box has such pain with 'em. Because unfortunately *bsd is not in Python's precompiled wheels. So one is almost building from the source.

Now every time I pip install something there's a high likelihood I'm going to end up having to install the rust tool chain and burn so much time on building libraries. I get why the project made the switch, but man does it hurt being downstream of it.

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