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I really like the premise of Rust. Keep at it. For my purposes, it's still a bit too immature. Last time I looked at the big 7 things, most were still not done.

by danjoc 10y ago

I really like the premise of Rust. Keep at it. For my purposes, it's still a bit too immature. Last time I looked at the big 7 things, most were still not done. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010139.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010139... The RustDT plugin for Eclipse makes the edit/save/compile/flag errors loop a lot tighter for me as a beginner. The autocomplete seems incomplete though and there's no hover docs or ctrl-click through to source that I remember. I look forward to the day I can replace JS with Rust. It would be nice to have a quick way to start doing Rust in the browser. I tried installing emscripten to give it a go, but the version in Ubuntu's deb repo was too old. I don't remember why, but building it from source didn't work out. I also got a bit lost trying to get boilerplate together for that purpose. Something like maven archetypes would be really great for Rust... Project templates that get you started with a working hello world for whatever you're trying to do. Just some suggestions. I basically like where Rust is going.

steveklabnik 10y ago
A quick summary of where these are at: Internationalization / Localization / Unicode (ICU): yup, no real progress. Needs some domain experts to drive it. Date/Time : chrono is the most popular. HTTP: hyper has been good for a few years now, tokio will make it async soon. Crypto: there's lots of interesting work in this space, see ring and rustls. SQL: Diesel is the gold standard here. So, some progress! You're absolutely right that growing the crates ecosystem is vital; we've doubled our numbers in the last year, but there's always more to do. > project templates https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/3004 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/3004
- danjoc 10y ago
  Thanks for your reply Steve. You're a stand up guy. I'll look into some of these over the holiday. I want to give the new rustup a whirl.
- Manishearth 10y ago
  For ICU we have http://github.com/unicode-rs/ http://github.com/unicode-rs/ which covers a lot of it. There are scattered libraries for other ICU things too.

by danjoc 10y ago

steveklabnik 10y ago

A quick summary of where these are at: Internationalization / Localization / Unicode (ICU): yup, no real progress. Needs some domain experts to drive it. Date/Time : chrono is the most popular. HTTP: hyper has been good for a few years now, tokio will make it async soon. Crypto: there's lots of interesting work in this space, see ring and rustls. SQL: Diesel is the gold standard here. So, some progress! You're absolutely right that growing the crates ecosystem is vital; we've doubled our numbers in the last year, but there's always more to do. > project templates https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/3004 https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/3004

danjoc 10y ago
Thanks for your reply Steve. You're a stand up guy. I'll look into some of these over the holiday. I want to give the new rustup a whirl.
Manishearth 10y ago
For ICU we have http://github.com/unicode-rs/ http://github.com/unicode-rs/ which covers a lot of it. There are scattered libraries for other ICU things too.