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…can, but if you just take a reference and Rust allows it, the code is good. Big step forward. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/21787#issuecomment-73...

comment by Animats · 2015-02-22 · in On Rust and Nim

…of [PATCH 0/10] for summaries, but those summaries are nowhere to be seen in the git repository. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/master

comment by geofft · 2015-02-15 · in The State of Go

…of the underlying abstract machine model. [1] http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/ [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Operating-system-deve...

comment by breckinloggins · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline

…7 top contributors to the project are Google employees. The Rust pulse graph shows the same trend ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pulse ), with the top 6 contributors being Mozillians (according to a few Google searches). Something…

comment by Artemis2 · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline

Oh, since you quoted that page, you might want to know about this PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/22282

comment by steveklabnik · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline

…community rifts that I have heard of. This page talks about the process and their code of conduct: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-development-poli...

comment by netcraft · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline

There's a core team ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-core-team ) responsible for final decisions on the direction of the language and libraries. Proposed changes go through a public RFC process (…

comment by aturon · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline

Many people do, e.g. bugs tagged E-easy in rust bug DB https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/E-easy

comment by brohee · 2015-02-05 · in Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

Line 21 here implements Writer for IOResult<T> where T also implements Writer: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/old...

comment by mhaymo · 2015-02-02 · in Heartbleed in Rust

You are right that this changed, but I can't find it in the RFCs either. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20189 implemented it. And it is what everyone agreed upon.... hmm

comment by steveklabnik · 2015-02-02 · in Some notes on Rust

…in the coming month, associated primarily with Servo ( https://github.com/servo/servo ) and Rust ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/ ). 1) Senior browser engineer. I am looking for a developer with deep familiarity with web platform…

comment by larsberg · 2015-02-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

…for speed, please file a performance bug! We love to know where we're missing out on optimizations. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues

comment by kibwen · 2015-01-14 · in A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust

http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/unsafe.html#avoiding-the-stand... is the closest we have, currently. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Operating-system-deve... has a bunch of stuff, and https://github.com/charliesome/rustboot and its…

comment by steveklabnik · 2015-01-11 · in 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust

…actual commit that finalized them is [^2]. [^1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230 [^2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/0efafac398ff7f28c5f...

comment by andolanra · 2015-01-11 · in 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust

…you need to implement more things on your own. Check out this page for some interesting projects: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Operating-system-deve...

comment by krenoten · 2015-01-11 · in 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust

Congratulations, haters: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20944

comment by jfager · 2015-01-11 · in Rust – “hello world” contains Lovecraft quotes

…of quotes: Steve Klabnik[1] 0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html 1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871#issuecomment-...

comment by tinco · 2015-01-11 · in Rust – “hello world” contains Lovecraft quotes

…for. Here's a whole list of kernels and other OS projects that have been created using Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Operating-system-deve...

comment by jnbiche · 2015-01-11 · in 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust

…which is apparently a The Legend of Zelda quote [3], almost certainly still under copyright. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871#issuecomment-... [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/29ad8e15a2b7e202494... [3]…

comment by tomp · 2015-01-11 · in Rust – “hello world” contains Lovecraft quotes

…this article at least serves to reassure people that you can produce a compact binary with Rust. ¹ https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871

comment by smosher_ · 2015-01-11 · in 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust

…are interested, there are instructions here for building Rust for Android and iOS, see "Platforms": https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Docs

comment by cottonseed · 2015-01-10 · in Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

Yes, though you will get fewer tomorrow: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20786

comment by steveklabnik · 2015-01-09 · in Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

…the exception of a list of libraries that are still unstable and features that may be tweaked ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Anticipated-breaking-... ). 3. Given the aforementioned degree of remaining instability, users should…

comment by kibwen · 2015-01-09 · in Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12866

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-12-29 · in Julia is awesome, but..

As source I cite this PR that just landed today: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/20218 "It's quite possible that small programs don't use all of jemalloc, and building with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections allows the linker…

comment by kibwen · 2014-12-27 · in Experimental C++11 multi-platform 3D engine

Take a look at this PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19405/files

comment by geofft · 2014-12-23 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-research (There is also at least one recent paper on Rust which is t linked here.)

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-12-22 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

…course, people thinking about bridging the worlds of formally provable correctness and Rust, e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18496 though extraction based is likely to not produce the most elegant or efficient code... and I…

comment by nullc · 2014-12-22 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

"Gladly" isn't quite accurate: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/4146#issuecomment-114... This is exactly how I'd expect to see `unsafe` used: as an additional optimization in situations where you can't get better in any other way,…

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-12-22 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Rust-for-CXX-programm... There's also http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/04/rust-for-c-... which is longer, but not as useful. Rust has roughly the feature set and memory model of C++. The…

comment by Animats · 2014-12-22 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6393- They want to make this better.

comment by jganetsk · 2014-12-22 · in Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

…and switches things to be much closer to the raw OS in implementation and semantics. [18967]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/18967

comment by dbaupp · 2014-12-19 · in Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

…if such a thing were desired (you can see remarks to this effect in the comments on the PR itself ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19654#issuecomment-66... and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19654#issuecomment-66... )).

comment by kibwen · 2014-12-19 · in Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

And in your Rust binaries, though this is a bug long since acknowledged :) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871 (And one of those isn't a Lovecraft quote, it's a Majora's Mask quote.)

comment by kibwen · 2014-12-19 · in Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

I'm more surprised to find Lovecraft quotes in Rust's source code: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/6bdce25e155d846bb9252...

comment by cosarara97 · 2014-12-19 · in Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

Link to the PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19654

comment by alexanderblom · 2014-12-19 · in Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

…having to jump between files ? [0] http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-testing.html#the-test-module [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/4deb27e/src/libcollec... [2] by marking all python files as "test modules"

comment by masklinn · 2014-12-15 · in Evolutionary couplings between files reveal poor software design choices

…library. Just two days ago, a PR was opened to remove four more things from the standard library: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19820

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-12-15 · in Comparing Rust and C++

…exceptions (so now they crash the app unless you opt-in to handling them). I described it here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/19610 But it's closed pending writing an RFC and I haven't had time to figure that out yet. Edit: I…

comment by MichaelGG · 2014-12-13 · in Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains

…guide, which is my baby) > What exactly does this change entail, then? The core team is listed at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-core-team . Basically, like most projects, it just adds weight to our opinions in decisions that…

comment by steveklabnik · 2014-12-12 · in Yehuda Katz and Steve Klabnik Are Joining the Rust Core Team

…is actually undergoing a dramatic overhaul and is being almost entirely removed as we speak: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/19654 This is incredibly exciting in that it means that you won't need to do any ceremony to link in Rust…

comment by kibwen · 2014-12-12 · in Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains

We can determine exactly how many builds you'd need by looking at the master snapshot file: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/snapshots.... According to this, there have been 290 snapshots in total. And keep in mind that…

comment by kibwen · 2014-12-11 · in Bootstrapping Rust

…of my own. Here's the first instance of what would become Rust's `Result` type (Oct 28 2011): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/c1092fb6d88efe51e42... Note that the type is called `t` since the convention at the time was to name the…

comment by kibwen · 2014-12-10 · in Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools

…that Rust has a lot more contributors compared to Go. Comparing https://github.com/golang/go and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust , all contributors: 380 vs 695, contributors with more than 100 commits: 17 vs 35.

comment by sanxiyn · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub

They have 31 blocking issues to take care of before 1.0 is a possibility: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/milestones/1.0 The project has 2,100 open issues and 8,500 closed issues. The stability more or less comes down to the community…

comment by jakevn · 2014-12-02 · in Go: Planning the 1.5 release

…about momentum. Comparing Go's contributor list ( https://golang.org/CONTRIBUTORS ) with ours ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/AUTHORS.txt ) has us with about 100 more than Go. I'm not saying our community is better than…

comment by erickt · 2014-11-24 · in Systems software research is still irrelevant

rustup.sh installs both. For other install methods see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16456

comment by killercup · 2014-11-21 · in The Rust community's crate host

That's a good point. I filed https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/19168 to get it fixed.

comment by erickt · 2014-11-21 · in The Rust community's crate host

…of new contributors, and goes to show what even a single driven community member can achieve. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18009 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/235 [3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/184…

comment by kibwen · 2014-11-19 · in Rust, Lifetimes, and Collections

…people are interested in Rust -> LLVM -> Emscripten -> JS, but there's still a lot of work to do. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/2235 - and integration is literally going on as we speak, https://github.com/kripken/emscripten-fastc…

comment by btown · 2014-11-18 · in From native code to browser: Flash, Haxe, Dart or asm.js?