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about 1 month ago | 3 days ago | |
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lang-team
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Totally_safe_transmute, Line-by-Line
The Rust team did a deep dive on the bug in 2020, which has some more details that might be helpful to understanding what's going on: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/blob/master/design-me....
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Using enums to represent state in Rust
I haven't been following this closely, so I looked it up and it looks like that's not going to happen for the foreseeable future unfortunately:
https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/122
Kind of a shame, but wrapper types work well enough that I understand. It does look like if there was someone with enough resources to make it happen that they'd be receptive to it.
- Should Error enums be `non_exhaustive`?
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What features would you like to see in rust?
Did you read the link the original comment posted? I think that explains the idea rather well https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/122
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Pattern matching tuple variant of enum without deconstructing tuple
A quick search pulled up this as a likely candidate for most recent discussion of it but it goes back at least to 2016 with this RFC.
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State Machines III: Type States
There have been at least one proposal and RFC in the past that seem to be deferred or closed due to bandwidth issues.
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The type system is a programmer's best friend
That's what Rust does, and it's considered a problem (that the devs are regrettably unable to reasonably solve) rather than a good thing.
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In-line crates
Lang had some conversations about this: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/issues/139
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LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: [PATCH v9 12/27] rust: add `kernel` crate
The design of Rust panics unconditionally aborts the program if you panic while unwinding, and some people even want to abort if you panic in Drop.
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Isolates, MicroVMs, and WebAssembly (In 2022)
> Better interoperability
AFAIK, the examples you give all target a basic C ABI [0] or can be made to target the same ABI. In Rust, it means targeting wasm32-unknown-emscripten
The Rust team is also working on a "WASM ABI"[1] which would be useful in taking advantage of stuff like multi-value returns, and other compilers could just choose to target that. More likely, the C ABI on WASM will be updated to account for missing features, and that'll be the standard for interoperability in the WASM ecosystem.
[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tool-conventions/blob/main/Ba...
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/blob/master/design-me...
linux
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The File Filesystem
FFS predates FreeBSD and is in some capacity supported by all 3 major BSDs. I'm fairly confident that Linux actually supports it through the ufs driver ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/fs/ufs ); whether the use of different names in different places makes it better or worse is an exercise for the reader.
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
These are a bit easier to see what's going on:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e...
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e61...
Unfortunately Github doesn't have a way to render symbols for whitespace, but you can tell by selecting the spaces that the previous version had leading tabs. Linus changed it so that the tokens `default` and the number e.g. `12` are also separated by a tab. This is tricky, because the token "default" is seven characters, it will always give this added tab a width of 1 char which makes it always layout the same as if it were a space no matter if you use tab widths of 1, 2, 4, or 8.
- Show HN: Running TempleOS in user space without virtualization
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PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel
There was also a Gentoo effort to run atop FreeBSD[0]. The challenge of course is that afaik none of the BSD kernel ABIs are considered stable. The stable interface is the BSD libc. That said, with binfmt_misc, I don't see a reason you couldn't just run (at least some) FreeBSD binaries on Linux with a thin syscall translation layer (rather something like qemu-system) and then your layer hooked via binfmt_misc. I'm not aware of anyone who has done this for FreeBSD, but prior efforts existed as alternate binfmts for SysVr4/5 ELF binaries[2]. Either way would take some elbow grease, but you *might* even be able just reuse binfmt_elf and just have a new interpreter for FreeBSD elf.
[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD
[1] https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.html
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/binfmt_elf....
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Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
> The original less-than check was deemed incorrect
It was only deemed incorrect because of an information leak. Not because it's a valid use-case for user space to copy smaller portions of *hwrpb into user space. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc71...
- Linus Torvalds accepts a merge commit to the Linux kernel
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TinyMCE (also) moving from MIT to GPL
Correct. And the combined work needs to carry the MIT license text and copyright attributions for the MIT software authors. With binary distribution it must also be overt, not hidden in some source code drop, but directly accompanying the binary.
Many people who talk about relicensing never credit the MIT developers or distribute the MIT license text. "Because it's GPL now."
I don't think that you believe that, but many developers do.
Some don't see the need for source code scans for Open Source compliance, because the license.txt says GPL, so it's GPL. Prime example is the Linux kernel. There is code under different licenses in there, but people don't even read https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING till the end ("In addition, other licenses may also apply.") and conclude it's simply GPL 2 and nothing else.
Also be aware that sublicensing is not the same as relicensing.
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Linus Torvalds is looking for a more modern GUI editor
> Does he have something against it?
He notoriously hates GNU Emacs, yes.
https://marc.info/?m=122955159617722
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
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The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
So If we would only count code and not comments, it is only 9489 LoC Rust. Which would be about 0.03% and if we take all lines and not only LoC it would be around 0.05%
[0] https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b401b621758e46812da...
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Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements
AIUI fsync is built on futex_waitv which has been upstreamed. So this has to be more than that.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a0eb2da92b715d0c97b...
What are some alternatives?
Idris2 - A purely functional programming language with first class types
zen-kernel - Zen Patched Kernel Sources
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier
diamond-types - The world's fastest CRDT. WIP.
winapps - Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
isahc - The practical HTTP client that is fun to use.
Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi - Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi
semver-trick - How to avoid complicated coordinated upgrades
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
rustc-dev-guide - A guide to how rustc works and how to contribute to it.
DsHidMini - Virtual HID Mini-user-mode-driver for Sony DualShock 3 Controllers