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by bjz_ 12y ago
Rust is trying to reduce the amount of magic in the libraries as much as possible. This means that whatever the language/standard library authors have available to them, third party library authors should also have access to. `T?` woul
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by bjz_ 12y ago
I'm not sure. There might be something on PistonDevelopers: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/ Bear in mind, the Rust library ecosystem is still pretty young, so you might have to write your own. Some could say
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by bjz_ 12y ago
I would also recommend checking out tomaka's glium[0] wrapper for OpenGL. It takes a different tack when it comes to providing a thin, statically typed graphics API, so depending on your preferences it might be more your cup of tea. -
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Hey there HN! I am one of the authors of this library - if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Kvark, one of our key contributors recently did a talk at the Toronto meetup[0] (starts from ~53:00) discussing some of the design of the A
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Who knows?
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Oh nice, I'll check it out. It's always good to see where things come from.
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Go seems to be an iteration of Rob Pike's previous languages, Limbo and Newsqueak - perhaps with a sprinkling of other ideas, but not much. Rust on the other hand has been a far more ambitious project, with very lofty goals. This has
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Can you switch it to the normal OS theme? I'm really not a fan of the non-standard UI... :[
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It is a great deal more flexible having concurrency constructs built as library features as opposed to baked into the language. If the constructs provided don't make the same performance tradeoffs that your use case demands, you can bu
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Says you. I don't think everyone would agree with you ;)
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I have definitely heard from multiple people that for them Rust was a good stepping stone to Haskell. Hopefully it will be the same way with Swift.
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> Quite the contrary, learning a language because it is exploding in popularity is a nice way to ensure that you'll end up being abused, poorly paid and irrelevant. Because I had the good fortune of starting with Rust early, I now h
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Isn't it C++17? Modules and concepts?
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I agree that it doesn't feel quite right, but this post seems to be more of a personal exploration of going from some ignorance of both languages, to having a better understand of where each language sits. His concluding section is nic
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by bjz_ 12y ago
> Niko Matsakis has been thinking about this for quite a while. Stay tuned :) Arrg, you have me excited now!
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Hmm, was the parent comment edited? I can't see a reference to documentation...
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> Race conditions are possible in Go Just to add a clarification on the implied comparison: Rust only protects against data races at compile time. Other forms of race conditions are still possible.
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Perhaps you could add a footnote at the end regarding this?
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This is currently implemented in Servo, but it is not a trivial problem. It was only added in the past several months, if I recall correctly (pcwalton will have to clarify). This is but a demonstration engine for educational purposes - kind
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Oh, gotta love the SMS. There were several obscure apps that experimented with it: - http://uri.cat/software/LiquidMac/ - http://uri.cat/software/Tunnel/ - http://www.suitable
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Ah yes. Correct.
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A compiler written in itself only proves that a language is good for writing compilers. A browser engine on the other hand touches huge swathes of the big problems faced in computer science, and puts severe demands on a language in terms ai
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Agreed. And the fact that some of the components could be incrementally incorporated back to Gecko as libraries would also be a big win for the security of Firefox, even if the possibility of using Servo in its entirety is a long way off (i
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Bear in mind that the more you implement of the HTML5/CSS specs the slower things get. But the feeling of the team (many of whom have experience on Gecko or Webkit) is that even with that taken into account the performance and power co
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by bjz_ 12y ago
So ChromeCast does not support HTML5 video? That's a bit sad.
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The other thing to consider is that the persistent navigation should recede into the background - drop shadows on everything would detract from the app's content. I would assume that the affordances are also less necessary because the
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Kitten is an exciting, actively developed, statically typed concatenative lang: http://kittenlang.org/
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Would you be able to put your `rustc -v` at the top of the page?
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> It is troubling to see that Rust still has a way to go in terms of learning it. Have no fear! Rust 1.0 is not far off and things will become a lot better then. Just be aware that google is pretty useless with now. You are much better o
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by bjz_ 12y ago
Racer is looking pretty great - would be good to see it working with some IDEs: https://github.com/phildawes/racer

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