[tor-bugs] #23891 [Core Tor/Tor]: Write blogpost on future/expectations for Rust in tor?

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#23891: Write blogpost on future/expectations for Rust in tor?
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     Reporter:  isis          |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  task          |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.3.3.x-final
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:  tor-blog-post
Actual Points:                |  Parent ID:
       Points:  .5            |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                |
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 During the Montréal team meetings, the Network Team discussed potentially
 writing a blogpost to describe:

 - our experiences so far with Rust,
 - how to currently build tor with `--enable-rust` (and what that currently
 means),
 - how others can help out, i.e. our packagers, volunteer mobile
 developers, and those who are running tor on exotic (micro)architectures,
 can all test builds now before we turn Rust on by default,
 - our current (proposed) timeline for making Rust on-by-default (i.e.
 after Firefox, and thus Tor Browser, makes it required-by-default,
 sometime between March and June 2018),
 - links to documentation and guidelines,
 - soliciting feedback and collaboration between other companies/projects
 using Rust as a first-class language (i.e. Bouyant, Mozilla, Dropbox,
 etc.),
 - our goals and hopes for the future,
 - etc.

 I know we're all hesitant to promise anything, in the event that this
 experiment goes awry somewhere, but we should be careful also to not take
 people by surprise. So without promising anything, this should help make
 people generally aware of the efforts so far, so that if we end up going
 with Rust we're not taking anyone (especially downstream people!) by
 surprise. (Also it ''does'' give us another shiny bonus thing to point
 funders at.)

 We probably should aim to have this ready upon, or shortly after, the
 release of 0.3.3, since one of our expressed goals was to have several
 modules optionally written in Rust at that point.

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