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1.5 | 0.0 | |
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C++ | Rust | |
Boost Software License 1.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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boost
- Full-Text Search has been added to the boost website. It looks into all the Boost libraries and their documentation.
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The New Boost Website Goes Beta
But there is also another reason, before there is any change to the status quo in terms of boost.org we must have the prolonged open beta where things not only get finished but every Boost stakeholder such as library authors, maintainers, contributors, users, mailing list subscribers, and so on have the opportunity to see it, ask questions, and open issues.
We do not control boost.org, and putting this on a subdomain imputes an authority for decision-making we don't have. Building it on some temporary domains, then presenting it as a choice is the only approach compatible with Boost values.
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Is it just me or is the quality of the Boost API docs just.. kind of terrible? Like compare it to cppreference (very good) or Qt docs (also great).
Not at all. There is no "they", the Boost Libraries is just a collection of individual libraries that each have their own author or maintainer, usually unpaid (although the C++ Alliance has changed that somewhat). The only funding that "Boost" gets is from running the C++Now conference, and some of that pays for the hosting of boost.org.
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Boost down?
Though the links within it seem to be to boost.org and therefore fail to be resolved. Well I can manually replace them with https://www.boostcpp.org/ like:
- New Boost.Unordered containers have BIG improvements!
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Ask HN: What Happened to Boost.org?
Oh wow, it behaves incorrectly...when I visit http://boost.org/ or https://... it shows spam on my side, whereas when I visit https://www.boost.org/ it works as expected.
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Why I support GCC-rs
If you wondered why Boost headers look like hell that's because once your library ends up being popular, you're kinda stuck supporting quirky compilers -- either yourself, or accepting patches for it.
polonius
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Why do lifetimes need to be leaky?
Correctness prover which uses lifetimes (Polonius).
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Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
And, well, polonius (Rust borrow checker magic) I believe is built on datalog-ish concepts: https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius
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Why doesn't rust-analyzer reuse infrastructures of rustc?
There is also polonius (https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius) which should replace the borrow checker but does not receive a lot of development resources.
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Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk
This is eventually going to be a feature-complete compiler, targeting a specific rustc version. I believe the plan is to use polonius [1], presumably as an "optional" feature so they can build a stage 1 without it, use that to build polonius, then build the final compiler with it included.
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Blog post: Rust in 2023
E.g. there you may just stop using current borrow-checker and switch to Polonius.
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What are Rust’s biggest weaknesses?
The borrow checker is too dumb (https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius) fixes a lot of this.
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Datafrog: A lightweight Datalog engine in Rust
It looks like an official borrow checker implementation called Polonius uses it as a dependency, so it makes sense: https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius/blob/981785c101b68ff54...
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Differential Datalog: a programming language for incremental computation
If you click around a little, you end up on a blog post with this tidbit:
> This project got put together rather suddenly, in response to some work the Rust folks are doing[1] on their new and improved borrow checker.
I don't think I could tell you more than "Frank wrote it to help rust folks who were previously doing work with differential-dataflow directly."
1. https://github.com/rust-lang/polonius/pull/36#issuecomment-3...
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Generic associated types to be stable in Rust 1.65
Good news is that there's also works going on to relax the restrictions, like polonius. But it seems that it still have a long way to go before it can land in stable Rust...
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Rust for Linux officially merged
GCC-rs isn't intended for bootstrapping, it is intended to be an actual fully featured Rust compiler in the future, mrustc is a Rust compiler intended for bootstrapping though. GCC-rs is still very early targeting an older version of the reference compiler without things like a borrow checker, but that's not going to be the case forever. The GCC-rs folks have expressed interest in re-using the borrow checker library used by the reference compiler called polonius enabling them to relatively easily add borrow checking.
What are some alternatives?
chalk - An implementation and definition of the Rust trait system using a PROLOG-like logic solver
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
rustc_codegen_gcc - libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc
miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation
rust-blog - Educational blog posts for Rust beginners
srgb.rs - Implementation of sRGB primitives and constants
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
mrustc - Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)
scryer-prolog - A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust.
lccc - Lightning Creations Compiler Frontend for various languages
datafrog - A lightweight Datalog engine in Rust