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To be used in Pijul as a pure Rust implementation of SSH client and server. They similarly replaced Pijul's LMDB dependency with Sanakirja[1].

[1] http://pijul.org/sanakirja/




I hadn't realised that Pijul is written in Rust! I had only read about the theoretical side of Pijul.


Started with OCaml plus a Scala prototype but moved to Rust.


I was about to ask about the motivation behind these changes in the implementation language, but the FAQ explains it all (last question): http://pijul.org/faq.html

Why is Scala considered "not open enough" BTW? Just curious.


Oracle's control of JVM and less community democracy compared to LLVM and rustc (what is used in Rust) may be what the mean, I suppose.


That paragraph sounds pretty uninformed. I wouldn't take it too seriously.




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