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Cargo
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Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs
Nice hack! Would it have been possible back then to use cargo to pull in some dependencies?
The clean solution of cargo script is here: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12207
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Making Rust binaries smaller by default
Yes, I am sure this is going to be a part of Rust 1.77.0 and it will release on 21st March. I say that because of the tag in the PR (https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13257#event-11505613...).
I'm no expert on Rust compiler development, but my understanding is that all code that is merged into master is available on nightly. If they're not behind a feature flag (this one isn't), they'll be available in a full release within 12 weeks of being merged. Larger features that need a lot more testing remain behind feature flags. Once they are merged into master, they remain on nightly until they're sufficiently tested. The multi-threaded frontend (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html) is an example of such a feature. It'll remain nightly only for several months.
Again, I'm not an expert. This is based on what I've observed of Rust development.
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You can't do that because I hate you
"Beg", and "passive aggressive" from TFA, is an unnecessarily emotional interpretation of that sentence. It's perfectly neutral. When they imported `cargo-vendor` into cargo removed a feature that was not trivial to reimplement, so they asked for an issue to be opened so that they can see if people want it and so that someone can decide to implement it.
That message *could* be updated to point to https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/10310 instead of asking for new issues to be created or suggesting the old `cargo-vendor`. (The author of TFA already knows about that issue, since they commented on it before they published their article.)
(You might say it would've been better to let cargo-vendor remain instead of importing it into cargo, but the reason that was done was to ensure it would continue to work with changes to cargo. Indeed that is why cargo-vendor does *not* work properly any more.)
The author provides very surface-level criticism of two Rust tools, but they don't look into why those choices were made.
With about five minutes of my time, I found out:
wrap_comments was introduced in 2019 [0]. There are bugs in the implementation (it breaks Markdown tables), so the option hasn't been marked as stable. Progress on the issue has been spotty.
--no-merge-sources is not trivial to re-implement [1]. The author has already explained why the flag no longer works -- Cargo integrated the command, but not all of the flags. This commit [2] explains why this functionality was removed in the first place.
Rust is open source, so the author of this blog post could improve the state of the software they care about by championing these issues. The --no-merge-sources error message even encourages you to open an issue, presumably so that the authors of Cargo can gauge the importance of certain flags/features.
You could even do something much simpler, like adding a comment to the related issues mentioning that you ran into these rough edges and that it made your life a little worse, or with a workaround that you found.
Alternatively, you can continue to write about how much free software sucks.
[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/3347
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10344
[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/commit/3842d8e6f20067f716...
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Cargo has never frustrated me like npm or pip has. Does Cargo ever get frustrating? Does anyone ever find themselves in dependency hell?
And there are IMHO some rough edges around workspaced crates. E.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3946
Be careful about doing this globally on in a way that shares the target dir, you'll end up hitting a cargo bug that causes it to combine unexpected code in some cases, which can cause unsound behavior. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12516
For filesystem caches, see https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12633
I wonder, is cargo gc solve the problem https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/12634 ?
Something else that will help is per user caching which several people are looking into. For dependencies you share between projects, they'll share the folder, saving on disk space.
rust-analyzer
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Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
go build 3.62s user 0.76s system 171% cpu 2.545 total
I was looking forward to parallel front-end[4], but I have not seen any improvement for these small changes.
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A guide on Neovim's LSP client
For example, intelephense can show diagnostics in real time, there is no need to save the file to get new diagnostics. But rust-analyzer, the language server for rust, can only update diagnostics after saving the file.
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Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
6. Rust Analyzer
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LSP could have been better
Agree this is not a problem. rust-analyzer also includes a boatload of custom extensions. Here's how "query type of selected expression" works, for example:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/...
For example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/...
> If you create an LSP, it will work best in VS Code.
Any editor can work just as well as (or even better than) VS Code.
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Mastering Emacs: What's new in Emacs 29.1
I am not a Rust dev. It surely looks great.
However, from what I understand it seems to supply just a parser separate from the Rust compiler (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/tree/master/crate...) trying to keep up with Rust‘s development. So, in principle, it could have been just another treesitter parser plugin, too.
So, again, the LSP framework does not directly provide any magical benefit over a static parsing framework. All the semantic analysis capabilities stem from a good parser.
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rust-analyzer significantly slowing down compilation
You may file issue at github rust-analyzer
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Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
I've contributed to rust-analyzer and nushell and had a great experience in both! Tons of open issues with a huge range of difficulties, and the maintainers are really helpful in providing hints to get started.
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I want to contribute in a big project
For something more concrete you can try and ask around on their zulip or browse their issues.
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Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
More info here: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/ and here: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/manual.html#installation
What are some alternatives?
vscode-rust - Rust extension for Visual Studio Code
intellij-rust - Rust plugin for the IntelliJ Platform
rustfmt - Format Rust code
sublime-rust - The official Sublime Text 4 package for the Rust Programming Language
coc-rust-analyzer - rust-analyzer extension for coc.nvim
eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers
RustCMake - An example project showing usage of CMake with Rust
typescript-language-server - TypeScript & JavaScript Language Server
tree-sitter-rust - Rust grammar for tree-sitter
vim-lsp-settings - Auto configurations for Language Server for vim-lsp
Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Neovim-from-scratch - 📚 A Neovim config designed from scratch to be understandable