rust-gc VS this-week-in-rust

rust-langdev has a lot of libraries for building compilers in Rust. Perhaps you could use these to make your implementation easier, and revisit it later if you want to build things from scratch. I'd suggest logos for lexing, LALRPOP / chumsky for parsing, and rust-gc for garbage collection.

There's nothing stopping you from doing that in Rust. See rust-gc for an example of a GC implemented in Rust. Another example is mozjs, which is Rust bindings to SpiderMonkey. The GC there is implemented in C++, but it shows how you'd structure wrapper types for GC'd pointers in Rust so that you can use them safely, even with all the "ugliness" of a browser-grade GC.

One can have a GC as a library, https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc

The ones I am aware of are gc and broom. None will be as simple to use as the one in old Rust as userland implementations don't have the benefit of first-class integrated compiler support.

Rust has rust-gc, which is an attempt to add opt-in GC over Rust's more traditional automatic memory management. It's a neat project, but I'm not sure where it's actually being used.

Inb4 "already exists": the question is about making it convenient, not just imlementing the behavior.

There is also a library implementation of garbage collection for Rust, made by someone from the Rust core team.

Yep! And I'd actually fully agree those are garbage collection, there's also a crate by Manish which does """real""" garbage collection—https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc

I don't know that I'd say it "works" - it's never a technique I've needed to use myself, but it's the approach taken by e.g. https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc

Anyway, I found something recent that implements "rc" but in terms of tracing: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc/ . Maybe useful for projects involving graphs of objects.

In addition to these repositories, there's a valuable resource that no Rust enthusiast should overlook— This Week in Rust. This community-driven initiative aggregates Rust-related news, updates, and most importantly, a curated list of issues across various Rust projects. If you're on the lookout for a tailored contribution or seeking the perfect project to kickstart your open-source journey, This Week in Rust is your go-to source.

If you'd like to know the upcoming meetings - there are quite a few online meetings that you can attend regardless of your location - then check out This week in Rust

The This Week In Rust newsletter has a Call for Participation section where projects post requests for contribution.

“This week” train!

I’ll go next

This week in Rust

https://this-week-in-rust.org/

Currently I have This Week in Rust and lime's

There's some latency involved, but we have this week in rust for this exact reason. Also feel free to discuss the news on the comments page.

https://this-week-in-rust.org has a Call for Participation section.