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- Unified versus Split Diff
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[MEDIA] Kanata: improve your keyboard comfort. Now with a logo, miette errors, and more features (v1.3.0-prerelease-1)
I actually quite like the config, seems intuitive! Though, I am comparing it to this abomination, so I might have low expectations here :-)
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Started using Rust for scripting
4) For scripts you put for everyday use in ~/bin, I've found busybox style multipurpose binary invaluable. You put all your scripts into a single Rust binary, and than hard-link this binary under different names in PATH, so that the first argv is actually the name of subcommand. Here's how the infra works for my scripts, and here's an example script.
- Rust as bash scripting replacement?
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Are there tools for a more granular benchmarking experience?
1) Invest into application-level profiling, using tracing::span! for collection and something like tracing_tracy or tracing_span_tree for visualization. This should give you high-level logical profile. 2) If on Linux, learn a bare minimum of perf for collecting data (the extent of my knowledge about perf is basically this script https://github.com/matklad/config/blob/master/tool/src/prf.rs). Use neither flamegraph.pl nor cargo flamegraph for visualization, use https://profiler.firefox.com/ instead.
- rust-analyzer changelog #89
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What you don't like about Rust?
And, while a spam links, here’s a link with more links: https://github.com/matklad/config/blob/master/links.adoc
mold
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I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain.
- The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust attack you’ll understand why.
- Dev tools in every language ecosystem are almost always free, unless they involve some kind of hosting. People aren’t used to opening their wallets. Look the experience of the guy who built the mold linker(https://github.com/rui314/mold). Far superior to the state of art, improves incremental compiles a lot, widely applicable across ecosystems (C, C++, Rust), CPU architectures and Operating Systems. You don’t even have to modify your compiler, just need to point to his linker. He’s even giving it away for free for personal use. But still, almost no one uses it. The inertia of the established options is really high.
- It’s not complex enough. Think about the complexity involved in the cranelift backend. No one can seriously recreate the efforts of bjorn3. If we could have, we would have. But the idea idea here can be recreated, especially by the experts who already built incremental compilation into rustc.
- But if your solution is truly complex, like the parallel frontend, the burden of maintaining a fork would be too high. You’d have to spend all your time rebasing.
Again I’m not trying to discourage you, just stating the difficulties of making a business in the dev tools space. You would be better off contributing this excellent work to the community and trying a different tack.
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Mold Course
I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)
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Monetizing Developer Tools
I assume this submission is trying to highlight the specific message (2023-01-24) : https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028...
Fyi... the author wrote a more expansive blog post about selling dev tools a few months later (2023-06-06) and there was a related HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016
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mold 2.1.0 - rui314/mold
Loongson's LoongArch CPU has been supported. (03b1a1c)
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Mold 2.0.0
I'm amazed at how quickly the author responds to requests: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1057
From the report to the fix in less than two days.
I'm not sure how competitive it will be with lld, especially if we consider ThinLTO (which takes multiple minutes on 64-core machine) - it can make the advantages of mold insignificant.
- Mold 2.0 released - MIT license
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Linking many files significantly increases build time. Is there an editor that allows you to write a single file but present the file to the screen as multiple 'virtual' files for better organization?
What other solutions have you tried for the problem of slow linking? You haven't even said which linker and what flags you're using. I haven't actually tried it, but the author of gold has an even faster linker called mold: https://github.com/rui314/mold
- Design and Implementation of the Mold Linker
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Apple's new library format combines the best of dynamic and static
> Mold did it first, though: https://github.com/rui314/mold
Before LLD?
What are some alternatives?
bacon - background rust code check
zld - A faster version of Apple's linker
nomicon - The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
pale-fire - Port of Emacs Zenburn theme to VS Code
osxcross - Mac OS X cross toolchain for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Android (Termux)
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
chibicc - A small C compiler
cargo-script-mvs - Pre-RFC for merging cargo-script into cargo
sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.