Re:D as a Better C
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:34AM
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> Wonder whats happening with Redox.
They've been involved in Google Summer of Code, and so have had lots of status update posts lately, here's the latest: https://redox-os.org/news/gsoc-self-hosting-final/
> Rust should move away from C standard library, if possible.
It's not always possible, but on systems where it is, there's some ability to do so, see https://github.com/japaric/steed
Re:D as a Better C
by knowThySelfx on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:41AM
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Thanks Steve.
>It's not always possible, but on systems where it is, there's some ability to do so, see https://github.com/japaric/steed
Doesn't linking to it make a Rust program "unsafe", in the Rust sense? Or my understanding is probably not correct.
Re:D as a Better C
by steveklabnik on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:43AM
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Using unsafe inside of safe is totally fine. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/safe-unsafe-meaning.html for more.
Re:D as a Better C
by knowThySelfx on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:30AM
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Cheers, thanks.
Granted Rust has some paradigms and constructs which are not easy to learn, I found it rather exciting. I think it has future scope.
Wonder whats happening with Redox. I hope Rust adds more libraries, especially network related, since the networked world is increasingly looking like a distributed OS of sort. Browsers are looking like an OS or a shell inside the OS. Browsers are getting more complex with more functionalities added every few months. Not sure I expressed my thoughts correctly, but I guess one can understand what I mean.
Rust should move away from C standard library, if possible.