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> people looking for an OpenSSL solution probably won't be willing to take the hit of slower run time perf and possible GC pauses

Golang users would?

That aside excellent points about rust tls, and libssl legacy cruft.




No, I’m imagining cross-language usage. Someone not using Go isn’t going to use the crypto/tls package from the Go std lib regardless of its quality. The overhead and difficulty of calling into Go make this infeasible.

To include a library written in another language as a shared lib, it needs to be C, C++ or Rust.




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