Re:Rust-GPU: Making Rust a first-class language and ecosyste...
by creata on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:50AM
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Thanks, there are some good pain points there.
> - The strict string handling. What about strings that should be UTF-8 but come over a network protocol?
From your description, it looks like you're looking for String::{from_utf8,from_utf8_lossy,from_utf8_unchecked}[0], but I'm guessing you've seen those already, so I'm confused.
> - Combining async code with non-async code. Also, how do you write a library that does I/O and supports both sync and async?
I think you'll have to just duplicate the code, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
> - The strict string handling. What about strings that should be UTF-8 but come over a network protocol?
From your description, it looks like you're looking for String::{from_utf8,from_utf8_lossy,from_utf8_unchecked}[0], but I'm guessing you've seen those already, so I'm confused.
> - Combining async code with non-async code. Also, how do you write a library that does I/O and supports both sync and async?
I think you'll have to just duplicate the code, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#meth...