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winsafe
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Sorry... what diskette?
I know all that shit because I'm the author of Rust's WinSafe library, which is a safer Rust layer over native Win32, so I had to deal with a lot of shit like this.
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Accessing List of Installed Apps on Windows 11
[dependencies] winsafe = { git = "https://github.com/rodrigocfd/winsafe", features = ["kernel"] }
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What is Rust's potential in game development?
Externally, you can write a lot of native Windows stuff in Rust already. Personally, I'm having a lot of fun with WinSafe.
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What are the scenarios where "Rewrite it in Rust" didn't meet your expectations or couldn't be successfully implemented?
If you had such problems (which I also had in the past), I'm really interested in you opinion about WinSafe, and if it could help you solving them.
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Is there a more "traditional" desktop front end I can use with Tauri?
If you're after a native Windows application, WinSafe may suit your needs.
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GitHub - ryanmcgrath/cacao: Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!
As the author of WinSafe, I can say it's tedious sometimes, but it's often very challenging, because you have to translate crazy unsafe behaviors into Rust's ownership model. It's surely hard, but also very rewarding at the end.
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Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
As the author of the WinSafe lib, I wholeheartedly agree.
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A Proposal for Safe Window Handles
I don't know how rare this is (or how rare it should be), but this issue warned me about this potential problem, and I had to make a huge refactoring to treat the possibility. I had to rethink many aspects of all handle implementations. It was hard work, but in the end it was worth it.
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
WinSafe says hello.
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Use ManuallyDrop in Rust to control drop order of structure fields
WinSafe, for example (which attemps to be a safe layer over the Windows API), provides lots of RAII automations. A fine example is the BeginPaint function:
Rust-for-Linux
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The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
Rust is backwards compatible when you stick to stable features, but the kernel uses unstable features that can and do incur breaking changes.
https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2
- Rust in Linux Kernel
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Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows driver development in Rust”
> How would this work?
Don't know exactly what you're asking.
> And why would it be a better idea?
Poorly written device drivers are a significant attack vector. It's one of the reasons Linux is now exploring using Rust for its own device drivers.[0] You may be asking -- why Rust and not some other language? Rust has many of the performance and interoperability advantages of C and C++, but as noted, makes certain classes of memory safety issues impossible. Rust also has significant mindshare among systems programming communities.
[0]: https://rust-for-linux.com
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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Ctrl-F "rust"
https://rust-for-linux.com/ links to LWN articles at https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Development_tools-Rust that suggest that only basic modules are yet possible with the rust support in Linux kernels 6.2 and 6.3.
Rust-for-linux links to the Android binder module though:
> Android Binder Driver: This project is an effort to rewrite Android's Binder kernel driver in Rust.
> Motivation: Binder is one of the most security and performance critical components of Android. Android isolates apps from each other and the system by assigning each app a unique user ID (UID). This is called "application sandboxing", and is a fundamental tenet of the Android Platform Security Model.
> The majority of inter-process communication (IPC) on Android goes through Binder. Thus, memory unsafety vulnerabilities are especially critical when they happen in the Binder driver
... "Rust in the Linux kernel" (2021) https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-linux-kernel... :
> [...] We also need designs that allow code in the two languages to interact with each other: we're particularly interested in safe, zero-cost abstractions that allow Rust code to use kernel functionality written in C, and how to implement functionality in idiomatic Rust that can be called seamlessly from the C portions of the kernel.
> Since Rust is a new language for the kernel, we also have the opportunity to enforce best practices in terms of documentation and uniformity. For example, we have specific machine-checked requirements around the usage of unsafe code: for every unsafe function, the developer must document the requirements that need to be satisfied by callers to ensure that its usage is safe; additionally, for every call to unsafe functions (or usage of unsafe constructs like dereferencing a raw pointer), the developer must document the justification for why it is safe to do so.
> We'll now show how such a driver would be implemented in Rust, contrasting it with a C implementation. [...]
This guide with unsafe rust that calls into the C, and then with next gen much safer rust right next to it would be a helpful resource too.
What of the post-docker container support (with userspaces also written in go) should be cloned to rust first?
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The state of Flatpak security: major Projects are the worst?
Rust-for-Linux issue tracker
- rust devs in a nutshell
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Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses)
Yes, I definitely agree that it's a problem that pr_info implicitly wraps its arguments in unsafe {}. I wrote my own Pull Request with a trival fix.
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how to compile a rust "hello world" with kernel 6.1?
Note that this template won't work with Linux 6.1, which has very minimal Rust support. You'll want the RustForLinux tree, or maybe Linux 6.2.
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If your dream was to be part of a big project like the linux kernel, what would be the first step if you are already an average programmer?
You can join Rust for Linux zulip chat by requesting invite using the link in https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux 's README.
What are some alternatives?
panamax - Mirror rustup and crates.io repositories, for offline Rust and cargo usage.
jakt - The Jakt Programming Language
winlamb - A lightweight modern C++11 library for Win32 API, using lambdas to handle Windows messages.
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
skytable - Skytable is a modern scalable NoSQL database with BlueQL, designed for performance, scalability and flexibility. Skytable gives you spaces, models, data types, complex collections and more to build powerful experiences
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
rust-psvita - Project to build PS Vita apps in rust
rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler
kube - Rust Kubernetes client and controller runtime
dafny - Dafny is a verification-aware programming language
calligrapher-ai - Handwriting Synthesis with RNNs ✍🏻
PrawnOS - Libre Mainline Kernel and Debian for arm laptops