gdbstub
An ergonomic, featureful, and easy-to-integrate implementation of the GDB Remote Serial Protocol in Rust (with no-compromises #![no_std] support) (by daniel5151)
watt
Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly (by dtolnay)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gdbstub
Posts with mentions or reviews of gdbstub.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-24.
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A fast STM32 embedded system emulator implemented in Rust
now integrate gdbstub to support debugging code inside the emulator :)
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Noctane: a highly WIP original PlayStation emulator
Shameless plug, but have you considered integrating gdbstub rather than rolling your own debugger? I know a couple folks out there have successfully integrated it into their PS1 emulators with great success.
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Things I hate about Rust, redux
I've worked really hard to keep gdbstub panic free in its minimal configuration, going so far as to write some informal scripts that parse rustc's asm output to scan for the presence of panicking code paths.
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gdbstub 0.6: An ergonomic, #![no_std] implementation of the GDB Remote Serial Protocol in Rust - now with async support!
crates.io | docs | repo
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Announcing Loadstone, a secure bare-metal Rust bootloader
As a totally shameless plug, I'm the maintainer of gdbstub, a bare-metal, no_std, no_alloc, and size-optimized implementation of the GDB Remote Serial Protocol. One of the major changes slated for the upcoming release 0.6 is support for a new state-machine based API, which makes it possible to drive gdbstub directly via bare metal interrupt handlers (i.e: send/recv data over UART, handling breakpoints via the undefined instruction trap interrupt, etc...).
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What's everyone working on this week (23/2021)?
Continue working on a new API in gdbstub that'll make it easier to use directly from an interrupt handler when debugging code in a no_std, bare-metal OS environment.
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Designing a new architecture for Rspotify based on trait inheritance, need opinions
I ran into almost this exact same problem while working on gdbstub, whereby I an API that allowed users to mix/match protocol features however they wanted, while also preventing users from accidentally implementing mutually-exclusive features. Moreover, I wanted to have a "zero cost" way to enable/disable API features without relying on cargo features. The solution I came up with is something I've been calling "Inlineable Dyn Extension Traits", or IDETs.
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Static check optimization question
For a concrete example of how smart the Rust compiler is, I have a small writeup + test-repo that benchmarks a technique I came up with while working on gdbstub that [ab]uses the compiler's devirtualization and inlining optimizations to create runtime feature flags that are entirely compiled out if hard-coded to false at runtime.
watt
Posts with mentions or reviews of watt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-19.
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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
The precompiled binary is not a sandboxed WASM binary. Despite the name "watt" it has nothing to do with https://github.com/dtolnay/watt . You can look at the actual code to see for yourself.
- Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust
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syn v2.0.0 released
* Related: watt is one approach to pre-compile proc-macro crates using WASM.
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My first year with Rust: The good, the bad, the ugly
In addition to thiserror and anyhow, our resident superhuman Rust-improving Robot, dtolnay, also developed an experiment in distributing precompiled proc macros as WebAssembly named Watt and, though I never bothered to create a Zulip account so I don't know what was said, I'm told there has been discussion around the idea of implementing something in that vein.
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Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
I think when we have Cranelift, Mold, and maybe Watt all working together then compile times will basically be a non-issue. It'll be a few years though.
- watt: Runtime for executing (Rust) procedural macros as WebAssembly
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Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal | Rust Blog
Check out https://github.com/dtolnay/watt - it's a really interesting solution to the problem!
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Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
I really like the idea of Watt: https://github.com/dtolnay/watt Run macros in a wasm sandbox so they can't touch anything you don't explicitly allow.
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NPM malware and what it could imply for Cargo
I really wish there was more interest in getting something like Watt upstreamed.
- Things I hate about Rust, redux
What are some alternatives?
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kani - Kani Rust Verifier
synth - The Declarative Data Generator
cargo-deny - ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀
rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler
cap-std - Capability-oriented version of the Rust standard library
retina - High-level RTSP multimedia streaming library, in Rust
awesome-wasm-runtimes - A list of webassemby runtimes