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nix
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I was wrong about rust
If we drop std Rust ceases to be economical due to the time it would take to reimplement the data structures and IO interfaces it provides, not to mention the event loop crate we use (calloop). At that point we'd be relying on so much FFI via eg. nix that the relative safety would be diminished too. After reimplementing all that it's not clear to me that we'd even save that much size, but I suppose it's possible.
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The guide to signal handling in Rust
Now that we have covered the fundamentals of signals, let's delve into the world of handling signals in Rust! Unlike C, where signal handling is built into the language modules, Rust provides several libraries that enable developers to handle signals with ease. Libraries such as signal_hook, nix, libc, and tokio handle signals that primarily use C bindings to make it possible to work with signals.
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[Quick Poll] Are You Using Nix for Your Rust Open-Source Projects?
Obviously you meant the nix crate
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Is there something like unistd.h on Rust?
Finally, there's the nix crate, which provides a safe Rust API over the libc functions.
- Pinning a dependency of a dependency when Cargo.lock is unavailable?
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Looking for feedback: cargo-changelog
You can take a look here for example: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
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An update on Rust coreutils
Unsafe code can in principle speed up I/O by calling libc for special syscalls, but uutils typically uses safe wrappers from nix instead. Very rarely there's a line of unsafe code needed to sand off the edges.
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Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty
This post fails to speak to me on two fronts:
* The `nix` crate is a cornerstone of the Rust development ecosystem: if you do anything that requires POSIX or various nix-specific APIs beyond those wrapped by the standard library, then `nix` most likely provides a high-level and safe* wrapper for them. Perfectionism is a virtue in this context, one that keeps large parts of the Rust ecosystem from accidentally consuming buggy code. The author unfortunately chose a particularly messy and bug-prone corner of the POSIX APIs to wrap, and ran into a correspondingly intensive review process. I've merged simpler wrappers[1][2] with no fuss.
* Alacritty seems to work just fine. I switched to it about two months ago, after using nothing but (heavily customized) rxvt-unicode for a decade. Maybe it's because I don't use ligatures or images in my terminals (I thought we were talking about non-"toy" functionality!), but I haven't found myself wanting for anything beyond what Alacritty already does. And the scrollback seems to work nicely. To summarize: where's the tragedy?
[1]: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1342
[2]: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1331
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What would you change about bitflags?
One thing I'd like to see is a MSRV policy, as its causing problems for downstreams (https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/issues/1555)
- Choosing between Rust and C++ for a new project
kitty-icon
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I lost the source file for my original Kitty icon, so I had to recreate it again(with bonus variants)
The repo is here, but I haven't updated it yet. Will try to finish this up in the next few days and update the repo.
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Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty
There's a similar thing with Kitty, which has a pretty bad looking icon that has sentimental value for the maintainer. The maintainer has expressed that they have no interest in changing the icon.
I simply made my own[0] and replaced it on my machine, easy enough and I fully respect the maintainer's position. It takes 30 seconds to replace the icon with an alternative, in fact you can probably automate it if you wish.
0: https://github.com/k0nserv/kitty-icon
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I just switched from iTerm and made an alternative logo
I've polished it and created an .icns. Get it from GitHub
What are some alternatives?
rust-fuse - Rust library for filesystems in userspace (FUSE)
wezterm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
tilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
Etherpad - Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.