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Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out

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Re: Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out

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Nice find with the grammar mismatch! Thanks for showing your methods in depth. I also liked the intro bit about knowing how to delve into a system. Seems like hoisting the entire Rust compiler distribution into one brain would be uncomfortable; there's so much going on in there.

Tangentially, digital archaeology is fascinating. I want to see some kind of VR "Git Simulator 201X" for exploring history in 3D. Maybe render commits projected spatially by date and be able to zoom into the diffs? If it could pull down all the PR comments from GitHub and then annotate the graph/blames... well, it might be useful, or might be more distracting than productive. Maybe a project for some rainy winter...

Re: Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out

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post #4

Nice find with the grammar mismatch! Thanks for showing your methods in depth. I also liked the intro bit about knowing how to delve into a system. Seems like hoisting the entire Rust compiler distribution into one brain would be uncomfortable; there's so much going on in there. Tangentially, digital archaeology is fascinating. I want to see some kind of VR "Git Simulator 201X" for exploring history in 3D. Maybe rend…

Thanks! There's more grammar and reference work to be done, hint hint to anyone reading this and looking for something to do on Rust ;)

I'd love to be able to follow a chunk of code around visually, wherever it gets moved, play back the commits touching it... not sure how it'd work exactly, but I think you're onto something there :)

Re: Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out

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Dead comment by user bombless. Reposting so Carol gets to see the comment (since she asked specifically for additional ways to find information) in case she doesn't have show dead on.

>About the ‵mod′ keyword in ‵use′, if you ask it on IRC I'm sure many people including me would point you the relevant PR that was made around October. Nice article by the way.

Re: Rust Discovery, Or: How I Figure Things Out

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post #7

Dead comment by user bombless. Reposting so Carol gets to see the comment (since she asked specifically for additional ways to find information) in case she doesn't have show dead on. >About the ‵mod′ keyword in ‵use′, if you ask it on IRC I'm sure many people including me would point you the relevant PR that was made around October. Nice article by the way.

Thank you, both of you! :)
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