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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Ported Tools
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2022

Rust Language Support for z/OS

Rust is a very powerful, memory safe system programming language that would be extremely useful on the mainframe platform. Rust would also be able to use existing z/OS C libraries as it natively supports linking to C libraries. My hope would be support for / usability of all rustup components on z/OS and a z/OS cross-compilation target to be able to build Rust applications for z/OS on other platforms.
Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jul 12, 2022
    This Ported Tools component is no longer provided by IBM. If there is still requirement, please redirect this request maybe to compiler team or to Rocket Software. Thanks