Comment by aragilar
2 years ago
Yeah, it's somewhat interesting that they point to Debian's popcon (which is opt-in), when the statistics are basically coming from amd64, whereas I think it would be much more interesting (if possible) to see what the number of installs of fish are on openwrt (and other embedded distros). Currently the openwrt fish install is ~2MB (which is massive on a router), I wonder what the new install size will be with the rust version, and if practically they've dropped everything except desktop/server linux and MacOS?
Rust binaries, once stripped, are not necessarily much fatter than their C++ counterparts. We're not expecting a huge increase there.
Embedded distros should still be supported, though you might need to cross-compile for a few depending on rust toolchain availability. Cygwin is supposed to be getting a working rust target at some point, but who knows?
I fully expect fish 4.0 to be in openwrt (because openwrt runs on x86_64), but what percentage openwrt machines have the space to run it would be interesting (I suspect it won't be an issue, as likely those near the lower limit of openwrt are probably sticking with busybox anyway, and not installing a different shell).
Personally, what I want is inexpensive hardware (routers, but also storage devices) that don't use much power (e.g. ~5W) but are also viable targets for projects like fish, so we can all have nice things.
I know rust-fish is being used on at least some non-x86_64 non-aarch64 routers because we've accepted patches by those users to make it build on platforms without native 64-bit CAS.
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