unsafe-libyaml
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2 | 146 | |
32 | 2,888 | |
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7.0 | 9.9 | |
about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
Rust | D | |
MIT License | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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unsafe-libyaml
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Rust for backend. Is it recommended?
The same is not true for CLIs, especially CLIs that don't use async networking. The space has matured incredibly well and almost everything you touch is bulletproof. Clap 4 with derive macros is one of the best libraries of any kind in any language I've ever used. Rayon makes totally safe parallel processing look like a rigged demo that can't possibly be real. Reading and writing JSON and TOML is silky smooth and fast, YAML is held together with sticky tape but it works too. There are incredible libraries like crossterm and tui to make terminal interfaces better and easier and more portable than anything in Go. People say Go is good for CLIs, but I think they must be comparing to Java or something, because Rust runs circles around Go for CLIs, and in ways that end users notice too.
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C2Rust Transpiler
I used it with great success for transpiring libyaml from C to Rust. I even set up Miri to run the upstream library's entire transpiled test suite, and the fact it passes is validation of absence of UB in the original C code.
The transpiled library now serves as the YAML backend for the widely used serde_yaml crate. Having serde_yaml be pure-Rust code instead of linking C is advantageous for painless cross-compilation as well as making downstream projects runnable in Miri.
https://github.com/dtolnay/unsafe-libyaml
dmd
- D2 Playground
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DMD Compiler as a Library: A Call to Arms
Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...
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My favourite Git commit (2019)
Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584
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The C Bounded Model Checker: Criminally Underused
A new generated code alone is 4000 lines long [1]. The actual code added is just 2000 lines, and some are used to pay debts, I mean, to make a proper code generator (which can be alternatively written in a simpler scripting langauge). In any case it is never comparable to the entier C parser proper.
[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15307/files#diff-3677bcc89...
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
D is completely opensource already (https://github.com/dlang/dmd). The "open" of OpenD is just ADR saying that OpenD will be more open to new language features than D has historically been.
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The OpenD Programming Language (fork of D)
The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md
However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.
Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.
- Odin Programming Language
- D Programming Language
What are some alternatives?
doom - DOOM translated from C to V.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
grpc-go - The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
ldc - The LLVM-based D Compiler.
cargo-zigbuild - Compile Cargo project with zig as linker
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
dextool - Suite of C/C++ tooling built on LLVM/Clang
Odin - Odin Programming Language
llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Cargo - The Rust package manager
CppCoreGuidelines - The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++