NTPsec's longer-term objectives

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Sep 12 19:34:18 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > While this is in some ways a tempting thought, I think the energy we might
> > spend on this would be better directed towards a newer language that *is*
> > suitable for soft realtime and has good provability properties for security.
> >  Rust or Go seem like the obvious candidates. 
> 
> How widely available are Rust and/or Go?

Every Unix-like system, for sure.  Checking...Rust has a Windows port.
So does Go.  Are there any other tarhets you're worried about?
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