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Name: portability-wg

Owner: rust-lang-nursery

Description: Coordination repository of the portability Working Group (WG)

Created: 2018-03-07 16:48:59.0

Updated: 2018-05-18 11:33:22.0

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Portability Working Group

Coordination repository of the portability Working Group (WG)

This repository issue tracker is used by the embedded WG to coordinate efforts towards making Rust a great choice for embedded development.

Vision

Rust is really super portable. It supports a lot of platforms. But not enough ? not nearly enough. Rust wants to be everywhere, in wild places that only future generations will be able to imagine. We?ve got some work yet to enable that future though, and it is our responsibility to the Rusting world to do so!

– @brson

Some concrete goals:

Support in std for non-Unix, non-Windows platforms.
Support for platforms that don?t have or require libc. The std API surface is already designed to accomodate this, but not the implementation.
Reduced maintenance burden for ports. Porting std today requires touching too many parts of the libraries, and those parts must be maintaned by the std maintainers. In general, day-to-day maintenance should not require dealing with platform-specific code, especially for lesser-maintained ports.
Rust developers should be aware when they use non-portable interfaces, so that they can avoid them or at least plan for them.
Most of Rust's crate ecosystem should be usable on any platform with ease.

Roster

Contact

You can usually find the members of the portability WG on the #rust-portability channel (server: irc.mozilla.org). Most of us use our GH usernames as our IRC nicknames.

This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.