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  • Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains

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  • I guess this answeres my previous question about the lack of updates to the Intellij Rust plugin.

  • This Month in Rust GameDev #48 - July 2023

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  • I like skimming through these summaries, and especially since there are so many things happening on so different levels. It it everythign from tiny snake, to very advanced games. Good read.

  • Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant

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  • Why you might actually want async in your project – notgull – The world's 1 source of notgull

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  • What are the benefits of Smol compared to the dominant async framework Tokio?

  • Typescript drama summary

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  • Cannot both be true?

  • The Embedded Rustacean Newsletter

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  • Darkreader didn't work well, but disable that and it looked ok in Firefox on Android.

  • How do you order your enums, structs and functions in your files?

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  • Order? I write them as I need them... is my code chaos, yes!

  • Thoughts on (semi-)automated tool to import content from /r/rust to this community?

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  • Well, bringing over comments by a bot feels totally wrong. I'm not sure we want to have reddit comments here, since it sometimes differ quite a lot in culture. Bringing over posts only, could be done by bot if it is determined by a human, but then on the other hand I don't see the point in involving the bot. Then you just look at the list in the bot instead of in /r/rust , and it is not that hard to just manually post if you find something there that would fit here. I like what you are trying to achieve, but I'm not a big fan of bots... it is so easy to get them wrong and then they can cause a lot of harm.

  • Thoughts on (semi-)automated tool to import content from /r/rust to this community?

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  • Also, this community is coming along nicely. We are in the top tree communities on programming.dev if you look at the list of communities. We are the highest ranked programming language community, ahead of Python. So, I don't see any need for artificially inflating this community.

    Edit: Link to the community page https://programming.dev/communities

  • Thoughts on (semi-)automated tool to import content from /r/rust to this community?

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  • No, just look at the rust community on Lemmy that imports stuff like this. It is flooded with a lot of content, but that makes it impossible to follow and interact with. Also, if you know it is a bot that posted, you don't have any reason to interact with that post. Automatic imports tend to feel like spam, so please don't do this....

    I'd rather see that people keep an eye open for suitable news, or ask genuine questions and write other interesting posts by hand. It may be a bit slow early on like it is now, but that is somewhat in proportion to the engagement so it all fits together.

  • What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

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  • is Rust really that powerful / intuitive?

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  • When you compare "idea to deployment" speed, a dynamic language will always win. However, much of this win is due to a dynamic language will let you deploy with a lot of bugs. So, you will then have to spend lot of time fixing production issues. Rust will force you to fix most of these issues before you can deploy, hence it feels slower in this aspect. I previously worked for 10 years with a huge perl code base, and I trade the deployment speed for stability in production any time.

  • UniFFI - automatically generate foreign-language bindings targeting Rust libraries

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  • If you refer to bindgen it also supports C++, and since Mozilla who was the main driver of rust uses C++ I assume the bindgen for that is pretty good.

  • Why Rust is the most admired language among developers?

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  • Yes, but all programmers have a love/hate relationship to their languages and toolchains. When I started off back in the 90:s, my prefereed language was Perl, it was amazing, but it was also a nightmare in some aspects... and unfortunately the larger the project the larger the nightmares. I assume Python is probably pretty much the same, even though I have avoided to work with dynamic languages in very large scale projects due to the support nightmares that comes with them. So I assume the Rust cult, is based on the fact that the rust frustration comes a lot from the strictness of the language, but that becomes less of a problem the more you use it (since your skills improve) and at that point the strictness instead gives the reward of reliability and efficiency.

    So, while dynamic languages may frustrate you the more you use it (since the projects grows and it is a nightmare to maintain), rust will instead reward you over time.

  • This Week in Rust 510

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  • Always nice to get a summary of the week. I had not seen about the websocket implementation, nice to see that Rust is yet again pushing the limits for performance.

  • The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation

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  • If that works for you and you are happy with it, fine. But sudo-rs seems to have a bit of a different usecase since it is intended as a drop in replacement for sudo, hence it must be able to handle the sudoers file aso. It still removes some of the never-used obscure functionality that sudo had, so it is probably a lot smaller code base than original sudo.

  • If you feel that you need a Rust replacement for 'ls', that apparently exists

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  • That varies quite a lot... but in general, the small tools seems to start as someone adding color and bling, possibly some nice things like automatic pager (like in bat). Still often nice additions though. For larger stuff like rg and gitoxide the authors seems to have done quite a lot of research and are really experts in their field. You don't improve grep and git by accident.

  • Release actix-web: v4.4.0

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  • I like that they now have rustls 0.21 support! Not that I know anything wrong with rustls 0.20, but I was always annoyed that cargo outdated pointed out that my rustls was outdated, and I wan't allowed to fix it :)

  • If you feel that you need a Rust replacement for 'ls', that apparently exists

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