Building Fast Interpreters in Rust

Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by pcwalton on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:45PM (#19305894)

Rust has C unions now, but without safety. I would probably write manual parsing code via the byteorder crate.

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Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by cqtoq on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:40AM (#19309651)

This is a bit off-topic, but it has been on my mind for a while.

Has the Rust team considered that choosing cute names like "crate" might turn away some of the target audience?

The same applies to other ecosystems like homebrew, but in the case of Rust some of the target audience certainly includes C/C++ programmers.

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Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by steveklabnik on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @06:50AM (#19309909)

C++ is itself a “cute” name. It seems to be doing just fine.

Beyond that, “crate” specifically has utility. The closest existing name is “compilation unit,” but with things like incremental compilation, that’s a bit of a misnomer. We need some kind of name.

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Re:Building Fast Interpreters in Rust by fulafel on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:01AM (#19326835)

C too (from B, which was a stripped down BCPL).

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