glguy

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   by glguy 5y ago

   LibraIRC is something else. You want libera.chat
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   by glguy 8y ago

   There are definitely ways to overwhelm the translator web demo. I know I'm not clever enough to block all of them. I put the page up to give people a way to try out the translator without having to build it. Please don't kill it :
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   by glguy 8y ago

   We've only started pondering what subset of C++ we might be able to support in future work for the project. Currently only C is in scope. That's an obvious next goal but it seems quite a bit more daunting!
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   by glguy 8y ago

   That's right. The translator just tries to preserve the original code. Refactoring things into proper, idiomatic Rust is the next step. The hope is that it will be easier to get the translation correct transforming unsafe Rust to safe
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   by glguy 8y ago

   Fortunately, once you start refactoring the Rust to take advantage of the functionality that doesn't exist in C (like slices, iterators, etc), things start to look much cleaner. Translating the code into ugly, unsafe Rust is intended t
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   by glguy 8y ago

   (I'm one of the authors of this tool) Our original plan was to simply work to improve Corrode. We eventually decided to to implement a new tool that uses Clang as the frontend in order to get more reliable parsing, preprocessing, and t