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by erickt 12y ago
Google supposedly has implemented something similar called user-level threads, which they talked about at the 2013 Linux Plumbers Conference. If I recall the video correctly, they talk about plans to open source it, but as far as I know the
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by erickt 12y ago
If anyone is interested in rust and cryptography, we have a meetup this Thursday in San Francsico focused on it: http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/210632582/ We are currently full, but we are live st
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Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDBM Database(erickt.github.io)
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by erickt 12y ago
There are two things going on in Servo that are causing it to use a lot of unsafe { ... } blocks. First, it still depends on a large amount of large c libraries, like SpiderMonkey for JavaScript. We automatically treat c foreign functions a
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by erickt 12y ago
To be fair, we in the rust community are telling people to wait for 1.0 unless they are okay with constantly updating their code as we clean up the language for our first release. It's fair though to speak about momentum. Comparing Go&
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by erickt 12y ago
That's a good point. I filed https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/19168 to get it fixed.
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by erickt 12y ago
That wouldn't be safe, because then they would have access to your private key and impersonate you. Having you (indirectly via their script) generate the key and submit the public key for signing means your private key never leaves the
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by erickt 12y ago
Avro is self describing [1]. It embeds the schema of whatever it is describing inside the format so a reader can handle arbitrary avro serialized files. It is also cross platform. I'm not sure if avro maps can cache keys, but if you us
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by erickt 12y ago
If anyone is interested in a meetup about Rust's growing gaming infrastructure, we are having a meetup on 6/26 ( http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/171111672/ ) and a hackathon on 6/28 (
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by erickt 12y ago
It is coming soon. Firefox Nightly has it as an option, and according to this it's supposed to be an option in Firefox 30. I'm not sure when it will be turned on by default though: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrol
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by erickt 12y ago
Stepping on each other's toes is just what happens with large projects. There are tools to help deal with merge conflicts so I don't think you should hold yourself back. OpenSSL needs all the eyes it can get right now.
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by erickt 13y ago
It was talked about in our first SF Bay Area rust meeetup: http://www.meetup.com/Rust-Bay-Area/events/143439552/ If I recall correctly, Skylight hooks into the ruby interpreter to do real time performance mon
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by erickt 13y ago
Yep, you are right. I just mailed rust-dev an announcement of the new Hash framework: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-February/00...
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by erickt 13y ago
You're right, we should mention it. Thanks for catching this. I filed a bug ticket to add some language about our performance goals: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/11174
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by erickt 13y ago
Actually, the ZeroMQ compatibility layer was recently cut from nanomsg: http://www.freelists.org/post/nanomsg/0MQ-compatibility-libr...
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New paper describing Google's Omega Cluster Scheduler [pdf](eurosys2013.tudos.org)
4 points by erickt 13y ago|0 comments
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by erickt 13y ago
I love rust, but we have not yet finalized the syntax and the semantics yet, so it'd be risky to write mission critical things in it. Our plan is to hit 1.0 by the end of the year. That said, rust has been written in rust, and every commit
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by erickt 13y ago
+foo is an old deprecated feature called a mode that is finally just about to be removed. Because the compiler is written in rust, it can take some time for deprecated things to be fully removed from the language. Modes were supposed to giv
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by erickt 13y ago
We do have a pretty printer that we're planning on growing into a gofmt-like tool, but we still have a ways to go with it before we will be comfortable using it in an automatic fashion like Go.
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by erickt 13y ago
There is not support for this at the moment, but one of core developers mentions one approach for starting to address this need in: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/04/02/asso...
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by erickt 14y ago
That sounds great. We do have a basic package management system ( https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-central ), so it'll be easy to get anything you write into the community.
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by erickt 14y ago
Oh boy I can't count. That criteria is a little tongue-in-cheek. Basically the core developers decided saving those extra three characters wasn't worth it. We implicitly return the last expression, so "return" is typically only used for an
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by erickt 14y ago
We like brevity in our keywords, but we felt that "ret" was taking things a little too far. "return" met our 5-characters-max criteria, so we switched. edit: Ho ho ho, I can't count. And we don't really have a 5-character-max criteria, but
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by erickt 14y ago
My favorite is the faster regex engine: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606 The elasticsearch folks were waiting for that before exposing regexes to the world.
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by erickt 14y ago
I have been working on a web framework stack: http://github.com/erickt/mre
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by erickt 14y ago
Mozilla is using rust for a new prototype engine called servo: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
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Show HN: MRE - a web framework for Rust(erickt.github.com)
2 points by erickt 14y ago|0 comments
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Rust 0.2 released(mail.mozilla.org)
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by erickt 15y ago
And unql: http://www.unqlspec.org/display/UnQL/Home
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by erickt 15y ago
Technically yes, but you can use elasticsearch as a distributed key-value store. I use it in production and it works amazingly well for me. Yes, searches may return stale data (one second old by default) but that is not much of a problem in

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