rules_rust VS llvm-project

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llvm-project

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rules_rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of rules_rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-14.
  • NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
    The same reason Bazel builds avoid using Cargo when building Rust software, so I'll describe why Bazel would do this:

    - Bazel wants to cache remote resources, like each respective crate's source files.

    - Bazel then wants to build each crate in a sandbox, and cache the build artifacts

    This is an established practice, and Nix wants to drive the build for the same reasons.

    See:

    - https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust

    - https://github.com/google/cargo-raze

  • Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
    5 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jun 2023
    To answer your question, I don't know if Soong or Bazel can reuse the files produced by an incremental Rust compilation. I tried searching the rules_rust repository and found some discussions, but nothing that clearly told me "Yes, this is supported".
  • When to Use Bazel?
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    Bazel doesn't allow targeting a lot of platforms (especially embedded) from Rust, even when the Rust ecosystem supports these targets. Something is off with its design if new work needs to be done for every platform that's already available behind an interface that's as consistent as what rustc gives.

    What is supported needs to be inferred from this file, as far as I can tell: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/blob/main/rust/plat...

  • Cpp-like build tools for Rust?
    4 projects | /r/rustjerk | 9 Sep 2022
    You might be overjoyed to learn that you can use a build tool that forces you to manually write out the dependencies between each file.
  • How to enable suggestions/autocomplete in VS Code?
    1 project | /r/bazel | 1 Jun 2022
    I am using rules_rust and have the VS Code Bazel plugin installed, but I am still not getting autocomplete.
  • Blog Post: Fast Rust Builds
    5 projects | /r/rust | 5 Sep 2021
    Other than that, the performance of both for builds should be determined exactly by the organization of code into separate crates and the rustc invocations. Bazel generally encourages smaller crates, but that's very subtle. There is at least 1 case I can think of where rustc is overfit to cargo, in a way that is not easily replicable by bazel, which is the metadata/rlib pipelining https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/issues/228
  • Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019)
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2021
    Rust integrates pretty seamlessly into Bazel projects via rules_rust (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust). The existing rules even allow for c calling rust and rust calling c. Example: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust/blob/main/examples/...
  • Why Zig When There Is Already C++ and Rust?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2021
    With any compiled language you can use the compiler and vendor your dependencies instead of using the language's conventional package manager. For example, nothing prevents skipping Cargo and building Rust directly with rustc the way Bazel does.

    https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust

llvm-project

Posts with mentions or reviews of llvm-project. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    'Computer Architeture: A Quantitative Apporach" and/or more specific design types (mips, arm, etc) can be found under the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architeture and Design.

    "Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries: Get to Grips With Llvm Essentials and Use the Core Libraries to Build Advanced Tools "

    "The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) : LLVM" https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html

    "Tourist Guide to LLVM source code" : https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453

    llvm home page : https://llvm.org/

    llvm tutorial : https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

    llvm reference : https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

    learn by examples : C source code to 'llvm' bitcode : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9148890/how-to-make-clan...

  • Flang-new: How to force arrays to be allocated on the heap?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024
    See

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/88344

    https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/flang-new-how-to-forc...

  • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
  • Programming from Top to Bottom - Parsing
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    You can never mistake type_declaration with an identifier, otherwise the program will not work. Aside from that constraint, you are free to name them whatever you like, there is no one standard, and each parser has it own naming conventions, unless you are planning to use something like LLVM. If you are interested, you can see examples of naming in different language parsers in the AST Explorer.
  • Look ma, I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    > There is one way to make the LLVM JIT compiler more usable, but I fear it’s going to take years to be implemented: being able to cache and reuse compiled queries.

    Actually, it's implemented in LLVM for years :) https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a98546ebcd2a692e...

  • C++ Safety, in Context
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
    > It's true, this was a CVE in Rust and not a CVE in C++, but only because C++ doesn't regard the issue as a problem at all. The problem definitely exists in C++, but it's not acknowledged as a problem, let alone fixed.

    Can you find a link that substantiates your claim? You're throwing out some heavy accusations here that don't seem to match reality at all.

    Case in point, this was fixed in both major C++ libraries:

    https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/ebf6175464768983a2d...

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4f67a909902d8ab9...

    So what C++ community refused to regard this as an issue and refused to fix it? Where is your supporting evidence for your claims?

  • Clang accepts MSVC arguments and targets Windows if its binary is named clang-cl
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    For everyone else looking for the magic in this almost 7k lines monster, look at line 6610 [1].

    [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/8ec28af8eaff5acd0d...

  • Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024
    Through value tracking. It's actually LLVM that does this, GCC probably does it as well, so in theory explicit bounds checks in regular C code would also be removed by the compiler.

    How it works exactly I don't know, and apparently it's so complex that it requires over 9000 lines of C++ to express:

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Anal...

  • Fortran 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/docs/F2...
  • MiniScript Ports
    10 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2024
    • Go • Rust • Lua • pure C (sans C++) • 6502 assembly • WebAssembly • compiler backends, like LLVM or Cranelift

What are some alternatives?

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cargo-chef - A cargo-subcommand to speed up Rust Docker builds using Docker layer caching.

Lark - Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.

cargo-sweep - A cargo subcommand for cleaning up unused build files generated by Cargo

gcc

www.ziglang.org

SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer

wg-allocators - Home of the Allocators working group: Paving a path for a standard set of allocator traits to be used in collections!

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

bazel-coverage-report-renderer - Haskell rules for Bazel.

windmill - Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (5x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool.