magic-wormhole.rs VS mos

> Downloading 3GB of dependencies is not a thing that happens in the Rust ecosystem. Reality is orders of magnitude smaller than that.

Assuming they're talking about the built size of dependencies that are left lying around after cargo builds a binary, they're really not exaggerating by much. I have no difficulty of believing that there are Rust projects that leave 3GB+ of dependency bloat on your file system after you build them.

To take the last Rust project I built, magic-wormhole.rs [1], the source code I downloaded from Github was 1.6 MB. After running `cargo build --release`, the build directory is now 618 MB and there's another 179 MB in ~/.cargo, for a total of 800 MB used.

All this to build a little command line program that sends and receives files over the network over a simple protocol (build size 14 MB). God forbid I build something actually complicated written in Rust, like a text editor.

[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs

This is cool but it really should be using TCP. (You can do holepunching with TCP, check out https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs/blob/master/src/transit.rs)

I'm contributing for some magic-wormhole issues, the book of rust-clippy , and exercism rust track ... Thank Almighty Allah.

I'm working on some issues in magic-wormhole.rs and still looking around for other projects.

Interesting! I wrote an assembler for the 6502 a while ago that works along the same lines. It supports running unit tests from the command-line, has a built-in 6502 emulator, uses the language server protocol to allow refactoring and syntax highlighting in VS Code and even hooks the VS Code debugger up to Vice.

Still working on mos, my 6502 assembler + toolchain. I've spent some evenings getting up to speed with the Debug Adapter Protocol, which allows me to provide a debugger in supported IDEs (like Visual Studio Code). Currently I'm wiring up the VICE emulator to this.

I've just released version 0.2.0 of MOS, my assembler for 6502 CPUs. Apart from spending some additional time on docs, I've spent most of my time on building a Language Server and an initial VSCode extension that supports things like syntax highlighting, find definition, formatting, etc.

That CPU is still going strong. In fact, I'm currently building an assembler for the 6502 in Rust.

https://mos.datatra.sh

I just released version 0.1.0 of my 6502 assembler/formatter called MOS! Really happy about it, since it's the first side-project I've actually managed to get to this state in a VERY long time.

Having said that, you're welcome to follow the repo on GitHub.