So building Chromium becomes even more complex. Understanding the build system alone is a major achievement; I even had to build a tool for that: https://github.com/rochus-keller/gntools/. Unfortunately that's only half of the rent; it also needs hundereds of Python scripts; and now also crates will be added.
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Fuchsia, uses also "gn" (then ninja) and has rust support too
The post is how they are not using rust, how could you possibly have come to the conclusion that the builds are going to get more complicated?
Because they’re clearly interested in possibly doing so in the future?
> So building Chromium becomes even more complex.
Suck it up and get used to it. Rust is absolutely the future of systems development; every major C or C++ project -- including the kernel -- is going to have a Rust interoperability story, and eventually, major components that implement desirable features written entirely in Rust, so in the interim, until the desirable but currently unrealistic goal of migrating all extant C and C++ code to Rust is achieved, you will need to have both C(++) and Rust tooling (and whatever else) to build the project.