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| rfcs | evcxr | |
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| 8 | 75 | |
| 57 | 5,182 | |
| - | 2.2% | |
| 4.3 | 8.7 | |
| 10 days ago | 10 days ago | |
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| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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rfcs
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What are the current hot topics in type theory and static analysis?
I would add that Equality saturation/E-graphs has become quite a hot topic recently, since their POPL21 paper, with workshops dedicated to applications of e-graphs. They have even recently been added to Cranelift as an IR for optimizations.
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Blog Post: Next Rust Compiler
I think with Cranelift's investment into an e-graph based optimizer (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rfcs/blob/main/accepted/cranelift-egraph.md) they are well positioned to have quite competitive performance as a backend.
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Inko in 2023
They're also actively working in this area, for example the recently added equality saturation framework and the pattern matching DSL it builds on.
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Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!
There's an RFC here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rfcs/pull/28 and Saúl Cabrera, the person who is leading this effort and implementing the compiler tier, has a work-in-progress draft PR here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/4907
- Cranelift: Using E-Graphs for Verified, Cooperating Middle-End Optimizations
- Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
evcxr
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Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs
Emacs didn't invent REPL, and it's common everywhere. For Rust: https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl/README.m.... But heck, the compiler is reasonably fast enough that any IDE can REPL by compiling the code.
The value here is more in being able to read a script before you run it, then have it run fast, maybe tweaking something here and there. And a compiled script will run 10,000 times faster than LISP, which can be important.
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Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong
https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr can run Rust in a Jupyter notebook. It's not Golang but close enough.
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The Hallucinated Rows Incident
The engine uses rust_decimal::Decimal to represent high precision decimal numbers, like the weight property. Serialization of RocksDB keys is done by the storekey crate. To know how Yumi's machine stores diffs, we can now ask- How does storekey serialize rust_decimal? Well, using evcxr to run Rust in Jupyter, the answer is as a null-terminated string:
- TermiC: Terminal C, Interactive C/C++ REPL shell created with BASH
- Exploring Options for Dynamic Code Changes in Rust without Recompilation (hot reloading)
- Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux
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What’s an actual use case for Rust
In theory you should be able to create Rust notebooks (Jupyter notebook) using evcxr so maybe some AI, data analysis, prototyping make sense if you aim for good performance in final application (protype in evcxr and use notebook as reference to implement final application in Rust for speed and safety).
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would you use rust for scripting?
You should check out evcxr
- Nannou – An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust
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Rust vs. Haskell
There is also implementations of rust REPLs, like the beautifully named evcxr.
What are some alternatives?
reduze - Zig program reduction is upstream in compiler due to various parser + formatter interactions.
vscode-jupyter - VS Code Jupyter extension
buck2 - Build system, successor to Buck
polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
libaco - A blazing fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library 💎 ⛅🚀⛅🌞
jupyter-rust - a docker container for jupyter notebooks for rust
design
rust-script - Run Rust files and expressions as scripts without any setup or compilation step.
spiderlightning - A set of WIT definitions and associated implementations to enable app developers to work at a faster pace and require less knowledge of the environment in which they are executing.
bincode - A binary encoder / decoder implementation in Rust.
marker - An experimental linting interface for Rust. Let's make custom lints a reality
cargo-script - Cargo script subcommand