Rewriting Rust
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Rewriting Rust
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#2Article aside, that page background messed with eyes while reading
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#3Article aside, that page background messed with eyes while reading
That is a user responsibility.
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#4Article aside, that page background messed with eyes while reading
Try Reader View in Firefox, has helped me with this article and many others.
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#5Seems rust has come full circle. Rewriting everything in rust.. Why not Rust! /s
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#6It's a good collection of the usual suspects, when it comes to suggested improvements for Rust.
The one point that stuck out for me is the comptime section. It approaches the topic from a security and supply-chain attacks angle, which is a way I never thought about it.
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#7>And I don't know if it will ever be there. Progress on the language has slowed so much. When I first started using it, every release seemed to add new, great features in stable rust. Now? Crickets.
Is frustration with Rust on the rise? I just started using Rust few month ago and absolutely love it. I can't tell what's going on with the Rust foundation so I can only judge by reading sentiments. Nothing would kill my vibe harder than knowing smart people thinks the language isn't doing great :(
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#8I think adding per-crate permissions to do undoable/unsafe things will lead us to permissions hell of devops in big deployments. Like Amazon S3 with gazillion options. I think it's time to do something radically different with 3rd party deps.
Even if we put aside safety issues, each crate brings ~10 more dependencies by default (i.e. without any features turned on), which bloats compile times. Maybe it's better to be able to shard 3rd party crates, and not update them automatically at all?
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#9>And I don't know if it will ever be there. Progress on the language has slowed so much. When I first started using it, every release seemed to add new, great features in stable rust. Now? Crickets. Is frustration with Rust on the rise? I just started using Rust few month ago and absolutely love it. I can't tell what's going on with the Rust foundation so I can only judge by reading sentiments. Nothing would kill my…
Just look at the proposal to add an --only-dependencies flag to cargo-build.
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2644
Its a clusterfuck of people misdirecting the discussion, the maintainers completely missing the point, and in the end its still not even been allowed to start.
Cargo can download-only, it cant build only dependencies. If you, for whatever reason (ignoring the misleading docker examples) want to build your dependencies separately from your main project build, you are sol unless you want to use a third party dependency to do so.
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#10>And I don't know if it will ever be there. Progress on the language has slowed so much. When I first started using it, every release seemed to add new, great features in stable rust. Now? Crickets. Is frustration with Rust on the rise? I just started using Rust few month ago and absolutely love it. I can't tell what's going on with the Rust foundation so I can only judge by reading sentiments. Nothing would kill my…
No language can continue to add freatures at speed, specially not a low level one. Rust development is going fine, crickets is just inaccurate. It just takes a while to add new stuff with zero overhead and backwards compadible.