Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)

• rfcs

  666 5,700 9.8 Markdown

  RFCs for changes to Rust

  

See my RFC https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3100

• rental

  3 211 1.2 Rust

  Discontinued Rust macro to generate self-referential structs

I agree with the general sentiment, and much of the stuff I build has little activity after an initial phase of getting it "done". However, I'm still around to merge important patches. But in the case of rental, the git repository is archived and most importantly the author has written that "users are encouraged to explore other solutions". Recently users of rental have been facing a future compat lint in rental, and thankfully the maintainer fixed it, but I think their intent of urging users to alternatives remains as immediately afterwards the repo got re-archived.

• InfluxDB

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• wg

  12 1,830 8.1

  Coordination repository of the embedded devices Working Group

  

Here's an interesting discussion, consolidated here. My view is you should use a restricted scope atomic (as best as can be supported) and interact with that through a handler struct. I.e. no global state.

• not-yet-awesome-embedded-rust

  5 114 0.0

  A collection of items that are not yet awesome in Embedded Rust

  

Here's an interesting discussion, consolidated here. My view is you should use a restricted scope atomic (as best as can be supported) and interact with that through a handler struct. I.e. no global state.

• index-list

  3 4 4.6 Rust

  A doubly-linked list implementation in safe Rust using vector indexes

If you switch pointers for indirect indexes, then you can quite easily make a purely safe doubly-linked list in Rust. I did that as a learning exercise and called it index_list (github), where all elements and nodes are stored in a vector (for improved locality). In my very short and non-general tests it performed better than the standard LinkedList implementation. It also provide you with an alternative way to iterate over the list with mutable access to its elements. It probably is not at the same level of quality as standard library things, as I'm quite new to Rust in general, but thought the design would be worth consideration in this context.

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