Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
frontend
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Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools
Started using renovate to update a few internal dependencies.
A few years later more than 30 projects using it and almost all of that growth happened naturally: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/frontend/renovate-gitlab-bot
We operate on a fork (5 commits or so) which contains some hacks to support a forked workflow on GitLab and some minor adjustments for that workflow. Really need to upstream some of it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/frontend/renovate-fork/-/merge...
The author was always super kind, responsive and accommodating.
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Mischievous NPM Publications
We‘ve been writing a tool to check lock files against the registry: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/frontend/untamper-my-lockfile
For now it only supports yarn, but npm support shouldn’t be too hard.
- gitlab is written in vue.js using nuxt. But in some places the pages on their site are updated? How is it implemented? If using nuxt and vue router doesn't refresh anything though
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Bundle Size Analysis
Have you dealt with analyzing the bundle size between builds? I couldn't find anything except this and just wanted to see what's out there.
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Development managers - what stressed you the most?
Keep an eye out for other ways to help others that stay more within your comfort zone. Maybe you create helpful documentation or a wiki page, maybe you improve an internal tool. If your team plans features and architecture in big group meetings, suggest that some topics might be better tackled with an asynchronous, written process that gives people more time to think about ideas. Some companies use an RFC (request for comment) process, which can be a really good way to collect the voices of quieter team members on big technical topics. (GitLab has a good example of this shared here. And there are examples in open source too, like this one from Rust.)
rfcs
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Ask HN: What April Fools jokes have you noticed this year?
RFC: Add large language models to Rust
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3603
- Rust to add large language models to the standard library
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Why does Rust choose not to provide `for` comprehensions?
Man, SO and family has really gone downhill. That top answer is absolutely terrible. In fact, if you care, you can literally look at the RFC discussion here to see the actual debate: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/582
Basically, `for x in y` is kind of redundant, already sorta-kinda supported by itertools, and there's also a ton of macros that sorta-kinda do it already. It would just be language bloat at this point.
Literally has nothing to do with memory management.
- Coroutines in C
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Uv: Python Packaging in Rust
Congrats!
> Similarly, uv does not yet generate a platform-agnostic lockfile. This matches pip-tools, but differs from Poetry and PDM, making uv a better fit for projects built around the pip and pip-tools workflows.
Do you expect to make the higher level workflow independent of requirements.txt / support a platform-agnostic lockfile? Being attached to Rye makes me think "no".
Without being platform agnostic, to me this is dead-on-arrival and unable to meet the "Cargo for Python" aim.
> uv supports alternate resolution strategies. By default, uv follows the standard Python dependency resolution strategy of preferring the latest compatible version of each package. But by passing --resolution=lowest, library authors can test their packages against the lowest-compatible version of their dependencies. (This is similar to Go's Minimal version selection.)
> uv allows for resolutions against arbitrary target Python versions. While pip and pip-tools always resolve against the currently-installed Python version (generating, e.g., a Python 3.12-compatible resolution when running under Python 3.12), uv accepts a --python-version parameter, enabling you to generate, e.g., Python 3.7-compatible resolutions even when running under newer versions.
This is great to see though!
I can understand it being a flag on these lower level, directly invoked dependency resolution operations.
While you aren't onto the higher level operations yet, I think it'd be useful to see if there is any cross-ecosystem learning we can do for my MSRV RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3537
How are you handling pre-releases in you resolution? Unsure how much of that is specified in PEPs. Its something that Cargo is weak in today but we're slowly improving.
- RFC: Rust Has Provenance
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The bane of my existence: Supporting both async and sync code in Rust
In the early days of Rust there was a debate about whether to support "green threads" and in doing that require runtime support. It was actually implemented and included for a time but it creates problems when trying to do library or embedded code. At the time Go for example chose to go that route, and it was both nice (goroutines are nice to write and well supported) and expensive (effectively requires GC etc). I don't remember the details but there is a Rust RFC from when they removed green threads:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/0806be4f282144cfcd55b...
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Why stdout is faster than stderr?
I did some more digging. By RFC 899, I believe Alex Crichton meant PR 899 in this repo:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/899
Still, no real discussion of why unbuffered stderr.
- Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong
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Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
Rust has had a stable SIMD vector API[1] for a long time. But, it's architecture specific. The portable API[2] isn't stable yet, but you probably can't use the portable API for some of the more exotic uses of SIMD anyway. Indeed, that's true in .NET's case too[3].
Rust does all this SIMD too. It just isn't in the standard library. But the regex crate does it. Indeed, this is where .NET got its SIMD approach for multiple substring search from in the first place[4]. ;-)
You're right that Rust's standard library is conservatively vectorized though[5]. The main thing blocking this isn't the lack of SIMD availability. It's more about how the standard library is internally structured, and the fact that things like substring search are not actually defined in `std` directly, but rather, in `core`. There are plans to fix this[6].
[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/arch/index.html
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/simd/index.html
[3]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/72fae0073b35a404f03c3...
[4]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/88394#issuecomment-16...
[5]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/memchr#why-is-the-standard-lib...
[6]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3469
What are some alternatives?
totally-fair-rng - A 100% fair random number generator, every day of the year!
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
npm-package-repro
bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
evil.js
crates.io - The Rust package registry
polonius - Defines the Rust borrow checker.
Rust-for-Linux - Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
rust-gc - Simple tracing (mark and sweep) garbage collector for Rust
rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]
unsafe-code-guidelines - Forum for discussion about what unsafe code can and can't do
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.