CircleMUD VS winsafe

Unfortunately the server has a blocking select until there's a new socket for when there's no open sockets to manage. I either have to change the old logic or write some awkward condvar stuff (like here https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD/commit/94c27cc11fda671ede5316e6aadc170889060f5e). It's really sad, the naive version that busy loops when the server has no connections is very chic and then it gets a lot harder to follow.

Here's the original CircleMUD code. Here's a decent write-up of the origin of "proc" as shorthand for a triggered effect. Here's a TIL of someone from another MMO discovering its actual origin.

CircleMUD code from https://github.com/Yuffster/CircleMUD

That's a backronym. Proc is just short for procedure from ancient MUD code, randomness is not necessary or implied. You'll notice the term "mob" for a monster also comes from there, they used to be called "mobiles".

I know all that shit because I'm the author of Rust's WinSafe library, which is a safer Rust layer over native Win32, so I had to deal with a lot of shit like this.

[dependencies] winsafe = { git = "https://github.com/rodrigocfd/winsafe", features = ["kernel"] }

Externally, you can write a lot of native Windows stuff in Rust already. Personally, I'm having a lot of fun with WinSafe.

If you had such problems (which I also had in the past), I'm really interested in you opinion about WinSafe, and if it could help you solving them.

If you're after a native Windows application, WinSafe may suit your needs.

As the author of WinSafe, I can say it's tedious sometimes, but it's often very challenging, because you have to translate crazy unsafe behaviors into Rust's ownership model. It's surely hard, but also very rewarding at the end.

As the author of the WinSafe lib, I wholeheartedly agree.

I don't know how rare this is (or how rare it should be), but this issue warned me about this potential problem, and I had to make a huge refactoring to treat the possibility. I had to rethink many aspects of all handle implementations. It was hard work, but in the end it was worth it.

WinSafe says hello.

WinSafe, for example (which attemps to be a safe layer over the Windows API), provides lots of RAII automations. A fine example is the BeginPaint function: