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A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation. Inspired by adapton, glimmer, and rustc's query system.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 0 stories, 17 comments · first 2019-05-13 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. Ah, good to know. Thanks for clarifying! UPDATE: Found some pointers if anyone is interested: * https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/issues/10 * https://hackmd.io/@ibraheemdev/S17Bxowwxg
    comment by shmerl · 2026-10-21 · in 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
  2. Also related, not a DB but an incremental computation engine: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa This can be found in things like the rust-analyzer and other actual compilers.
    comment by Permik · 2026-01-09 · in Signals vs. Query-Based Compilers
  3. …differential datalog by combing the OP repo with salsa[1] (the crate that powers rust-analyzer) [1] https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by foota · 2025-06-16 · in Datalog in Rust
  4. …type checking This is true! We're also contributing salsa features upstream where we can, e.g. https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/pull/603
    comment by dcreager · 2025-01-29 · in "We're building a new static type checker for Python"
  5. …query infrastructure in rust-analyzer, but rust-analyzer is a query-driven system. We use Salsa ( https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/ ), which is strongly inspired by rustc's query system, down to the underlying red/green algorithm (…
    comment by thramp · 2024-12-13 · in Rust’s Incremental Compiler Architecture
  6. …the last year, and the one I liked a lot is from Salsa examples, you can find it here[0]. [0] https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/blob/e4d36daf2dc4a09600975...
    comment by norman784 · 2024-11-08 · in Rust for tokenising and parsing
  7. …like salsa [0] and adapton [1]? Could dbsp work as a backend for an incremental compiler? [0] https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa [1] https://docs.rs/adapton/latest/adapton/
    comment by nextaccountic · 2024-09-30 · in Feldera Incremental Compute Engine
  8. …dependents haven't changed. Do you know if anyone has thought of building something like this? [1] https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by zacmps · 2024-07-31 · in Amazon's exabyte-scale migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2
  9. …Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdV1M7n4gQ Also https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by sarosh · 2023-06-13 · in Ask HN: Learning Modern Compilers?
  10. …but it's galaxy-brained (I watched an hourlong introduction video and could still barely grasp it). https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by gavinray · 2022-11-08 · in Differential Datalog: a programming language for incremental computation
  11. The content of that "Core Concepts" page sounds a lot like https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by pitaj · 2022-10-25 · in Turbopack, the successor to Webpack
  12. …flow through centralized "request"/"query" APIs that automatically track dependencies - see https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa for more information ` - research along the lines of ILC (Incremental Lambda Calculus) might yield more…
    comment by eddyb · 2022-08-03 · in The end of Optane is bad news
  13. …the symbols in a database and the linting and completion/semantics are entirely query-driven: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa Good video describing it's use for working with Rust's AST: https://youtu.be/i_IhACacPRY?t=1348
    comment by gavinray · 2020-07-19 · in Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog
  14. …protoype Rust's implementation of query-based compilation. https://github.com/lark-exploration/lark https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by fluffything · 2020-06-26 · in Query-Based Compiler Architectures
  15. I think the author linked a Rust example of a query-based compiler: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by yingw787 · 2020-06-25 · in Query-Based Compiler Architectures
  16. …they are writing for the Rust compiler that is being kept in a generic crate for anyone to use See https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
    comment by epage · 2019-07-25 · in The Rust compiler is still getting faster
  17. …is what I would expect for most incremental computing frameworks. Skip seems to be more ambitious. https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa I believe that the Skip language does this, because it's compiler is self-hosted. It's…
    comment by chubot · 2019-05-13 · in Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor