lastontheboat

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by lastontheboat 12y ago
http://endl.ch/content/cxx2rust-pains-wrapping-c-rust-exampl... is discussion on using C++ libraries from Rust that focuses on QT as a motivating example with runnable code at the time.
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by lastontheboat 12y ago
Nope. It's totally not a thing we're concerned about at the moment, given the language's immaturity.
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by lastontheboat 12y ago
Not right now. It's a huge amount of work to create something competitive, and as soon as you add a JIT you lose most of the safety benefits that Rust provides. There is js.rs ( https://github.com/TomBebbington/js.r
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by lastontheboat 12y ago
It actually suggests that we're misusing the trait in the short term, since it's one of the few that has built-in deriving magic in the compiler. In the future that won't be the case, but Rust is still a work in progress.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
I don't know what this means, but we're totally implementing the DOM and JavaScript execution using SpiderMonkey.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
http://rr-project.org/rr.html has all the gory details.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
Correct.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
Oh right, that's a special case. The Gecko HTML5 parser is already generated by a specially-targetted Java -> C++ translator. We want to use the same code and make it go Java -> Rust, that's all.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
You're the best.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
>plan to do auto conversion of C++ to Rust This... is news to me? I'm pretty sure we have no such plans at all.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
No, it's definitely still broken on 32bit platforms. It does not even finish building right now.
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
Nope. I mean, the parser's from there, but we're replacing it. We wrote a CSS parser to replace the NetSurf one we used for a bit, and all the layout code is from scratch. There's a Rust library called rust-http providing us
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
You might be interested in the ongoing reconstruction of Cave Story written in Rust: https://github.com/drbawb/rust-story
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
We've got lists of recommended contributions for newcomers, and they come with a mentor attached as well: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/
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by lastontheboat 13y ago
It's actually #introduction (no plural), but yes, we are a friendly bunch!
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction#Step_5... should address the last question.
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
You have hit the problem on the head. I'm very interested in surfacing better information for potential new contributors, and these are all points that I've harped on before. There's an eternal tradeoff - things like wiki pages are easy to
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
This sums up its status remarkably well.
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
We're definitely blurring the bounds of official-ness. Everybody in the organization who has seen it is always enthusiastic, and nobody has asked me to remove the tabzilla branding.
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
You should put together a Get Involved wiki page and submit a pull request.
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
You are absolutely correct. The domain doesn't match the content right now, but I'm going to be running a sprint to fill it out with non-coding-related activities soon. You can see a prototype at http://www.joshmatthews.net/asknot/ ; I'm m
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
https://github.com/jdm/asknot/blob/master/locales.ini#L62 I love getting pull requests!
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by lastontheboat 14y ago
#2 is shipping as part of Firefox 20.