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mrustc
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Why do lifetimes need to be leaky?
No, you don't. Existential proof: mrustc ignores lifetimes. Just flat out simply ignores. It changes some corner-cases related to HRBT, yet rustc compiled by mrustc works (that's BTW mrustc exist: to bootsrap the rustc compiler).
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I think C++ is still a desirable coding platform compared to Rust
Incidentally C++ is the only way to bootstrap rust without rust today.
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Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly
Well, there is mrustc[0], a Rust compiler that doesn't include a borrow-checker, so it's possible to compile (at least some versions of) Rust without a borrow checker, though it might not result in the most optimized code.
AFAIK there are some optimization like the infamous `noalias` optimization (which took several tries to get turned on[1]) that uses information established during borrow checking.
I'm also not sure what the relation with NLL (non-lexical lifetimes) is, where I would assume you would need at least a primitive borrow-checker to establish some information that the backend might be interested in. Then again, mrustc compiles Rust versions that have NLL features without a borrow-checker, so it's again probably more on the optimization side than being essential.
- Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler
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GCC 13 and the state of gccrs
Mrustc supports Rust 1.54.0 today
- Any alternate Rust compilers?
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Stop Comparing Rust to Old C++
There are three. The official one, mrustc (no borrow checker, but can essentially compile the official rustc) and GCC (can't really compile anything substantial yet). Only rustc is production-ready though.
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“33% of GStreamer commits are now in Rust”, from the 1.22 release notes
Otherwise you could try compiling to C using mrustc and going from there, but as mrustc is really only intended for compiler bootstrapping it won't be a fun experience. Mrustc mostly just assumes that the code you're compiling is valid, so you lose all the advantages of choosing Rust over C in the first place. It also targets x86-64 so the C it emits might need some work before it'll compile.
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Am I dumb or does rust have a garbage collector?
In fact, https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc compiles code without the need for a borrow checker :-)
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GCC Rust Front-End Cleared For Merging In GCC 13
Instead of an independent re-implementation, a small niche implementation whose only purpose is to bootstrap, like mrustc. Since its a much smaller scope, and only intended to work on known correct code, its much simpler and easier to do. It doesnt need to do any type or borrow checking or much of anything, because the rust source is already known to be correct/checked by itself.
winlamb
- Cross-platform file mapping
- What middleware would you like
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dear imgui as a Qt Widgets Alternative?
The first thing that came into my mind was: why not simply go fully native, with the aid of something like WinLamb? Often you can roll your own custom controls quicker than a cross-platform library.
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Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
I write C++ and raw Win32 for more than 20 years. I'm the author of this, and I'm rewriting my personal stuff in Rust just for fun.
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Is WinUI the most modern GUI library for C++ desktop applications on Windows?
I wrote a very thin C++11 wrapper for Win32 a few years ago, in case you're interested: WinLamb. It won't do everything, it just covers window creation and messaging, and leaves room to plug any other Win32 stuff on top of it.
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Your first Rust project: How bad was the first working version in the context of what you know about the language today? If given the ability to change those early days of learning Rust, what changes would you make?
Given my C++ Win32 background, the very first thing I tried was to write a native Win32 GUI app in Rust. It later became the WinSafe crate, which is strikingly similar to WinLamb C++ lib. The Rust experience was awesome. The correctness of the type system was something I really appreciated, things C++ cannot give you.
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Which GUI platform and why?
I write native Windows stuff sometimes, and I use Windigo, which I wrote based on my WinLamb C++ lib. It's a GUI system over raw Win32, so this has the disadvantage that you'll have to learn some Win32... but it has the advantage that you have the unleashed power of Win32 at your fingertips.
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What is an idiomatic rust equivalent of C# events?
I used this pattern in my C++ lib, and I just translated it to Rust idioms. The trickiest part is working under Rust's ownership system – the borrow checker is really unforgiving.
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Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP
There's a low level wrapper, and on top of the wrapper there's a new API to use native controls and create custom windows (the gui module). It was based on WinLamb, which is a C++ lib.
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WinSafe: Win32 GUI and related APIs in safe, idiomatic Rust - after 1 year and 5 months of development, first experimental version is finally here
Today I have a bunch of native Win32 applications, all C++, most of them slowly incorporating C++17 features. Some of them are built upon WinLamb library. Some of them are 20 years old, packed with all sorts of tricks. (I think I can be considered one of those "old Win32 dinosaurs".)
What are some alternatives?
winsafe - Windows API and GUI in safe, idiomatic Rust.
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
llvm-cbe - resurrected LLVM "C Backend", with improvements
rust-ttapi
miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation
giu - Cross platform rapid GUI framework for golang based on Dear ImGui.
gcc-rust - a (WIP) Rust frontend for gcc / a gcc backend for rustc
winsafe-examples - Examples of native Windows applications written in Rust with WinSafe.
ponyc - Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust
reference - The Rust Reference