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Rust developer tools – status and strategy

• sanderjd 12y ago
  Very useful collection! A few points: - He doesn't mention benchmarking, which is built into the testing capabilities of the compiler and is very nice to have. - The only profiling tool I've had success with is Instruments, which I find harder to use in general than many of the alternatives, so I look forward to progress on this front. - A good REPL would be very nice to have, for more than just "programming in the small" (but maybe that is what he meant by "experimentation"). There used to be one, but it had lots of issues, so it was understandably but lamentably killed. - Cargo is already a very nice package manager. It feels like it has learned from many mistakes made by ruby, python, and node (though I think it resembles npm the most) and hasn't been frustrating at all for me. Notably, I find the workflow much easier than go's, despite its comparative youth. It is missing a central registry, but github serves the purpose decently at the moment.
  • cpeterso 12y ago
    The Rust team plans to launch a central package registry at (running a server written in Rust :) before Rust 1.0.
    • steveklabnik 12y ago
      ... Well before. You didn't hear that from me, though...
    • sanderjd 12y ago
      Didn't mean to imply otherwise! Just meant to point out that it's already very usable, even without the registry.