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…and potential issues around interactive programming in Rust are outlined and discussed here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/655

comment by capableweb · 2020-11-24 · in Tips for Performant TypeScript

…most things can work. Like Rust just brought their arm support to the tier 1 support level, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959

comment by dutchmartin · 2020-11-12 · in Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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Rust core team promotes Linux on 64-bit Arm to Tier-1 supported platform status

story by fork-bomber · 2020-10-22 · 15 comments

…and it also seems to solve them with duplication where necessary[2], at least sometimes. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/414 [1]: https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2/tree/master/libs/base [2]:…

comment by creata · 2020-10-20 · in Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust

There are some RFCs that in combination would allow that: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2756 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981

comment by GolDDranks · 2020-10-09 · in Rust 1.47

We have a project group working on "safe transmute", here's their first RFC https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981 It cites the Haskell work: https://github.com/jswrenn/rfcs/blob/safer-transmute/text/00...

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-10-05 · in Type-Level Programming in Rust

…personally rely on match ergonomics[1] and borrow e instead of using ref in the pattern[2]. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2005-matc... [2]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...

comment by estebank · 2020-10-03 · in A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust

…it not pessimizing badly. [0] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit... [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/560

comment by lytigas · 2020-09-24 · in How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?

…could handle it, for example, and the intention is to ship it. There's also more minor things like https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1210#issuecomment-179...

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-09-23 · in Haskell's Children

…the same `x` after the loop. EDIT: left a comment on the GitHub thread, I might be misremembering https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2848#issuecomment-6... .

comment by eddyb · 2020-09-22 · in My least favorite Rust type

…there is a proposal to fix this that looks like it wouldn't be breaking, and so should be possible: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2848

comment by cmyr · 2020-09-21 · in My least favorite Rust type

…all of its reverse dependencies. I really hope `extern type` could help with this. edit wrote https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2984#issuecomment-695... on how I think it could.

comment by Ericson2314 · 2020-09-20 · in Why Not Rust?

…into a closure [1], or nested &mut receiver calls being rejected despite being sound [2]. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2407 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6268

comment by dlubarov · 2020-09-20 · in Why Not Rust?

…indirect impact of raising the bar for whatever comes after, then it will have been worth it. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1584-macr... [2]: https://youtu.be/Z6X7Ada0ugE?t=705 Transcript of the relevant excerpt:…

comment by estebank · 2020-09-19 · in Why Rust is not a mature programming language

…[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/trait-object.html?... [3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1156-adju...

comment by estebank · 2020-09-18 · in My Favorite Rust Function Signature

…the rule. `'a` is not inferred for `dyn Trait<'a>`, it is inferred for `&'a dyn Trait`[1]. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0599-defa...

comment by estebank · 2020-09-18 · in My Favorite Rust Function Signature

…crates than that. > would the crates team be more open to transferring ownership of these packages? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2614

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-09-11 · in The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature

ARM themselves are sponsoring work on the aarch64 Linux target. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959 I work in arm32 daily, it works well for us. Happy to help if you need some!

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-09-11 · in Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming

…talk to systems with no overhead. A zero-cost FFI into C is a huge part of that ability. Nowhere in https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230 is Mozilla mentioned, nor expenses.

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-09-04 · in Rust is not a good C replacement (2019)

Rust supports a global custom allocator. Per container allocators are on the roadmap : https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1398-kind...

comment by egnehots · 2020-08-27 · in Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

…of a backwards compatibility problem) to introduce the concept of an "unsafe macro." Along with https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2585 it would really emphasize the proof obligation-vs-discharge model of `unsafe`.

comment by Rusky · 2020-08-24 · in AutoCXX: Safely call C++ from Rust with auto generated bindings

…lot of procedural kinks to work out. Future targets should go much more smoothly. More detail here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-08-24 · in Bare Metal Rust Generics

…is finished (like the post discussing closure suggests) which it almost is. > In favor of https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2000 That's the minimal const generics RFC. > No other designs have been accepted to extend this yet. A design…

comment by fluffything · 2020-08-17 · in Idris 2 version 0.2.1

These RFCs were closed https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1930 In favor of https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2000 No other designs have been accepted to extend this yet. We're still implementing what was already accepted!

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-08-17 · in Idris 2 version 0.2.1

…--- About first class variants: https://lobste.rs/s/77nu3d/oil_s_parser_is_160x_200x_faster_... https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2593 Another way I think of this is "types vs. tags": https://oilshell.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/20895…

comment by chubot · 2020-08-12 · in Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

…I'd add that if people want namespacing to actually happen they need to collaborate on an RFC ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/0000-template.... ). Ideally someone would post a pre-RFC to internals.rust-lang.org so it can be…

comment by ChrisSD · 2020-08-07 · in First Impressions of Rust

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Rust Edition 2021 and Beyond

story by yannikyeo · 2020-07-30 · 0 comments

…for adding “cargo install”, but doesn’t attempt to limit its applicability to other binaries. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1200-carg...

comment by kd5bjo · 2020-07-20 · in Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

…and Rust-related tools for developers, not for distributing general software to end-users. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1200#issuecomment-120...

comment by ruuda · 2020-07-20 · in Dijo: A terminal-based habit tracker written in Rust

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RFC: Promote aarch64-unknown-Linux-gnu to a Tier-1 Rust target

story by xucheng · 2020-07-18 · 0 comments

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RFC: Promote Rust's aarch64-unknown-Linux-gnu target to Tier-1

story by fork-bomber · 2020-07-17 · 1 comment

…though I prefer not to do that.) * I would eventually like to see fields in traits (as in this RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1546 ). This would be a lot like the previous point, but a little more direct and perhaps more…

comment by Rusky · 2020-07-12 · in Tour of Rust

This is simply not true. For example, here's the 2017 roadmap, which was authored in 2016 https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1774-road... > The edit-compile-debug cycle in Rust takes too long, and it's one of the complaints…

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-07-11 · in Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

…GC having been available in stdlib for a long time [3] (similar to C++'s std::shared_ptr) [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1398-kind... [1] https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/gc-support-in-... [2]…

comment by exrook · 2020-07-11 · in Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

…that mean Go's error handling approach is only superficially different to checked exceptions? [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0243-trai...

comment by twic · 2020-07-07 · in Why Go's Error Handling Is Awesome

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story by ducaale · 2020-06-21 · 0 comments

…platforms have Rust Tier 1 support. Btw one of the main reasons for this is missing CI support. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1795#issuecomment-3... But of course there's always a way if you want it enough.

comment by est31 · 2020-06-01 · in Embedded Rules of Thumb (2018)

…unreleased features. I think I'm down to just needing this for associated_type_defaults (rfc here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2532/files ). 2. Nightly allows passing extra compiler flags, which is occasionally useful for…

comment by monadic2 · 2020-05-12 · in RISC-V OS using Rust: Filesystems

…https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68404 * implement the actual asm! we want to stabilize: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2873 * stabilize it

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-05-12 · in RISC-V OS using Rust: Filesystems

…are "enabled" mode. (There's a few other details, but this is good enough for our discussion. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0560-inte... ) Rustc implements this as follows: * When debug_assertions is on, it's in…

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-05-10 · in Debunking that C++ is faster and safer than Rust

…the language. This may be fixed by using rust-analyzers libraries within the compiler. RFC here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2912

comment by Argorak · 2020-04-27 · in Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust

…it's great to be able to address such a curious (albeit minor) historical wart from Rust 1.0. :) https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2700-asso...

comment by kibwen · 2020-04-23 · in Rust 1.43

…really work, I also need to solve the problem of setjmp/longjmp at the edges between C and Rust ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2625 ).

comment by wireprotocol · 2020-04-23 · in Rust 1.43

…one day be resolved and become implemented. [1] https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/tm/ [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/671

comment by weinzierl · 2020-04-22 · in The new Clang _ExtInt feature provides exact bitwidth integer types

I tried: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/117

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-03-27 · in Dashmap: Fast concurrent HashMap for Rust

…bottom. Incidentally, some folks have asked for a syntax closer to Hope (and Haskell, and others) https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1564 fn factorial(0: u64) -> u64 { 1 } fn factorial(n: u64) -> u64 { n * factorial(n - 1) } I doubt…

comment by steveklabnik · 2020-03-23 · in Two Years with Rust

I look forward longingly to the day when RFC #2593 comes to pass. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2593

comment by dodobirdlord · 2020-03-13 · in Rust 1.42

Has anyone struggled with the lack of HashMap literal? https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/542 I just cant bring myself to doing something like this: let m1: HashMap<&str, i32> = [("Sun", 10), ("Mon", 11)]. iter(). cloned().…

comment by svnpenn · 2020-02-29 · in A half-hour to learn Rust

…and SDK for Rust. That seems fairly reasonable given that Rust doesn’t have a stable ABI ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/600 ). Making sure Rust apps are forward-compatible with new OS releases could be difficult. In comparison,…

comment by iainmerrick · 2020-02-25 · in Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

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Rust Wishlist: functions with keyword args, default args, varargs

story by nurettin · 2020-02-19 · 0 comments