Re: Support for Rust

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Lev Kokotov <lev(at)hyperparam(dot)ai>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Support for Rust
Date: 2022-09-10 17:14:55
Message-ID: 20220910171455.GA2274723@nathanxps13
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 07:38:14PM -0700, Lev Kokotov wrote:
> Are there any plans or thoughts about adding support for other languages
> than C into Postgres, namely Rust? I would love to hack on some features
> but I worry somewhat that the C compiler won't give me enough hints that
> I'm doing something wrong, and the Rust compiler has been excellent at
> preventing bugs.

There was some discussion about Rust back in 2017 [0] that you might be
interested in.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAASwCXdQUiuUnhycdRvrUmHuzk5PsaGxr54U4t34teQjcjb%3DAQ%40mail.gmail.com

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