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RIIR
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First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel
It was, imo, inflated by the comments pointing to the RiiR sentiments, not the comments to that effect itself. Even repositories 'collecting' such instances (e.g. https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR) are largely not collections of making anyone to change their own software but just projects that happen to be written in Rust. (these out-of-scope issues are not being tagged appropriately). Overhyped controversy by all sides.
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Stroustrup: “C++ is bigger than ever”
Dunno what news you have missed but there's entire internet brigades dedicated sorely to spam projects with "rewrite it in rust". There's even a repo documenting this.
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Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
The OP post in the link references https://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR (Rewrite it in Rust) as a meme.
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Ruff: A new, fast and correct Python checker/linter
Yes, one can hope, but I wouldn't bet on it and I wouldn't suggest to RIIR. I don't want to be that person that pops up uncalled for and asks to Rewrite It In Rust. One might think "Oh it is just one additional issue to the ~2.2k already opened mypy issues" if they have at all realized that there are that many open issues.
- NVIDIA Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" (This is not about Rust)
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Linus Torvalds: Rust will go into Linux 6.1
It's died down a bit now, but there is/was a non-trivial amount of stupidity from Rust advocates whenever someone ran into a memory problem with C/C++ to "re-write it in rust" or to just rewrite things in general. (IE https://transitiontech.ca/random/RIIR)
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Τι γλώσσες ξέρετε; Πως τις μάθατε;
Or even better, RIIR the Windows kernel!
- Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages. Rust’s rich type system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety — enabling you to e
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Would a rust rewrite solve the security issues of x.org?
What is it with people asking for rust rewrites of Xorg this week? https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/83
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I’m waiting.
The second language is Rust, and I went with that partly because rewriting C in Rust is a meme in itself, and in part because it was much easier to think of how to nicely fix that bug in Rust than it was in C (just add a = to the range to be end-inclusive).
utfcpp
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Current utf8 support options.
std::string is simply a string of bytes, so can already contain utf-8 encoded text. The only problem is when you want to interact with OS (Windows) API and other library APIs that don't expect utf-8 and when you need to count number of characters etc. For that you can look into existing libraries, e.g. the official Unicode ICU or whatever you can find that others have made, e.g.: https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp
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How to cout a non-ASCII character within a non-ASCII string
Suffice it to say, this is a mess. However, there are libraries that make this easier.
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Maintain It with Zig
> I've always tried as much as possible to treat strings as just opaque data and never look into them, which tends to work well, but in some domains you really need to look at and massage the characters/codepoints/grapheme clusters, and the lack of a first-citizen UTF-8-aware string type is, I think, a bit unfortunate in this day and age.
You don't need a UTF-8 type for that, you just need routines that handle UTF-8 strings, like utfcpp (https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp).
What are some alternatives?
rust-learning - A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Rust
icu - The home of the ICU project source code.
ziglyph - Unicode text processing for the Zig programming language.
dstep - A tool for converting C and Objective-C headers to D modules
arocc - A C compiler written in Zig.
wtfiles - Files that make you go WTF!
cc-rs - Rust library for build scripts to compile C/C++ code into a Rust library
awesome-embedded-rust - Curated list of resources for Embedded and Low-level development in the Rust programming language
zigstr - Zigstr is a UTF-8 string type for Zig programs.
mach - zig game engine & graphics toolkit