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glguy

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About glguy

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    Comment #27505218

    LibraIRC is something else. You want libera.chat

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    Comment #17382692

    There are definitely ways to overwhelm the translator web demo. I know I'm not clever enough to block all of them. I put the page up to give people a way to try out the translator …

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    Comment #17382383

    We've only started pondering what subset of C++ we might be able to support in future work for the project. Currently only C is in scope. That's an obvious next goal but it seems q…

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    Comment #17382292

    That's right. The translator just tries to preserve the original code. Refactoring things into proper, idiomatic Rust is the next step. The hope is that it will be easier to get th…

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    Comment #17382167

    Fortunately, once you start refactoring the Rust to take advantage of the functionality that doesn't exist in C (like slices, iterators, etc), things start to look much cleaner. Tr…

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    Comment #17382148

    (I'm one of the authors of this tool) Our original plan was to simply work to improve Corrode. We eventually decided to to implement a new tool that uses Clang as the frontend in o…