Re: [HACKERS] RustgreSQL

On 08/01/17 22:09, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone working on porting PostgreSQL to Rust?
>
> Corrode looks a bit limited for the task, but maybe it can be a start.
> It doesn't support goto or switch, but maybe the gotos patterns are 
> not too complicated.
>
> My motivation is primarily I don't want to learn all the 
> over-complicated details of C,
> but at the same time I would like to be productive in a safe system 
> language,
> a category in which Rust seems to be alone.
>
> Porting PostgreSQL to Rust would be a multi-year project,
> and it could only be done if the process could be fully automated,
> by supporting all the coding patterns used by the project,
> otherwise a Rust-port would quickly fall behind the master branch.
> But if all git commits could be automatically converted to Rust,
> then the RustgreSQL project could pull all commits from upstream
> until all development has switched over to Rust among all developers.
>
> Is this completely unrealistic or is it carved in stone PostgreSQL 
> will always be a C project forever and ever?
>From my very limited understanding, PostgreSQL is more likely to be 
converted to C++!


Cheers,
Gavin