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…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

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story by krenoten · 2015-01-11 · 67 comments

…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

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story by monort · 2015-01-11 · 36 comments

…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

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story by deegles · 2015-01-09 · 1 comment

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

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story by heinrich5991 · 2014-12-19 · 102 comments

…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?

Associated types mainly: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/17307

comment by bjz_ · 2014-11-15 · in A high-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust

…you can definitely ask on #rust-gamedev on irc.mozilla.org or even the rust_gamedev subreddit. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Computer-Graphics-and... [2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev

comment by dbaupp · 2014-11-15 · in A high-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust

…current task (thread/process), not the whole program, and has in fact been renamed panic! recently: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/17894

comment by masklinn · 2014-11-08 · in Rust and Go

…are thin layers above the low-level C functionality). [0]: https://github.com/carllerche/mio [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Computer-Graphics-and...

comment by dbaupp · 2014-11-07 · in Rust and Go

I wonder what actor library the author is using with Rust. Given the status of github issues like https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/3573 I thought there weren't any real options.

comment by toomanymike · 2014-11-07 · in Rust and Go

…the size is part of the type signature and each size would need to be implemented separately. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/7622 Though the Coord solution you implemented is in my opinion better for a typed language.

comment by kaoD · 2014-11-02 · in Learning Rust

…where clauses have helped alleviate this though. [0]: https://github.com/bjz?tab=repositories [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors [2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2ejxk6/minutes_from_la... [3]:…

comment by bjz_ · 2014-10-31 · in Stability as a Deliverable

…benefit to Rustifying them because C/C++ compilers are needed for the other things anyway) [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/rt (the 'rt' = runtime name is a holdover from when the runtime was not written in Rust)

comment by dbaupp · 2014-10-29 · in A taste of Rust for C/C++ programmers

…describing a Rust library (since C headers are the lingua-franca of FFI libraries, in many ways), https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10530 . And, being a young language, it's not too hard to be doing something no-one else has ever…

comment by dbaupp · 2014-10-26 · in Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files