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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by vitiral on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:48PM (#13733067)
One of their (more minor admittedly) goals this year is to improve/stabilize no_std as well as make std more portable. Looking forward to another great year in rust!
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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by steveklabnik on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:04PM (#13733162)
To be clear, no_std is itself stable, but when creating a binary, you need two language items, and those aren't stable. It's not 100% clear what the right path is yet for that, but we'll get there. :)
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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by KuiN on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:15PM (#13733597)
Can you explain what you mean by "you need two language items"? I'm just getting into Rust now and planning some bare metal stuff.
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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by steveklabnik on Saturday February 25, 2017 @04:16PM (#13733874)
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/no-stdlib.html

(This link will change in one or two releases; I landed a new "Unstable Book" a few days ago.)

The TL;DR is Rust expects certain stuff to be implemented in Rust code to work, and that's provided by the standard library. When you don't use the standard library, libcore implements all but a few of them. Implementing them is not yet stable.

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Re:One Year with Rust: I wrote a full featured application i... by steveklabnik on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:04PM (#13756701)
This is now at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/lang-items.h...
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