Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?

• s2protocol

  9 616 4.4 Python

  Python library to decode StarCraft II replay protocols

  

vm = virtual machine/memory?

I'm porting this Python library to Rust: https://github.com/Blizzard/s2protocol.

For the shitty, first pass prototype code I've written so far I've seen a ~30-40x speedup compared to the Python implementation and a ~2x speedup compared to a Go implementation by someone else: https://github.com/icza/s2prot.

That is why I chose Rust over a GC language like Go. It's a lot faster out of the box, even without me having a strong understanding of memory operations.

• s2prot

  3 51 4.8 Go

  Decoder/parser of Blizzard's StarCraft II replay file format (*.SC2Replay)

vm = virtual machine/memory?

I'm porting this Python library to Rust: https://github.com/Blizzard/s2protocol.

For the shitty, first pass prototype code I've written so far I've seen a ~30-40x speedup compared to the Python implementation and a ~2x speedup compared to a Go implementation by someone else: https://github.com/icza/s2prot.

That is why I chose Rust over a GC language like Go. It's a lot faster out of the box, even without me having a strong understanding of memory operations.

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• hylo

  54 1,101 9.9 Swift

  The Hylo programming language

  

> I wonder if there is a subset of Rust that can be extracted someone into a new, minimal language with the core benefits.

That is basically what Val aims to do:

https://www.val-lang.dev/

It has Rust-style ownership to guarantee memory safety, but without the complexity of lifetimes.

There is still a borrow-checker-like component, but I believe it should be much simpler than Rust's. In particular it infers how to call functions automatically (see "method bundles" and how they are called).

Still in the research phase. It is an open question how well this approach scales.

• Vale

  64 1,660 6.8 Scala

  Compiler for the Vale programming language - http://vale.dev/ (by ValeLang)

  

Good news! Complexity isn't a baseline requirement: it's possible to make a language that follows the basic patterns of an average Rust program. It's what we're doing in Vale [0].

It turns out, they key is to move some checks to run-time [1] to reduce complexity, move other checks instead to compile-time [2] where it doesn't increase complexity, and then make the borrow checker "opt-in" instead of forcing it to be used everywhere [3].

[0] https://vale.dev/

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references

[2] https://verdagon.dev/blog/higher-raii-7drl

[3] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-refs-regions

• hn-search

  1,610 523 2.9 TypeScript

  Hacker News Search

  

Scanning back over the past couple years, there's plenty of commentary about coloring in async Rust

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=rust+async

• tamago

  13 1,265 8.5 Go

  TamaGo - ARM/RISC-V bare metal Go

  

Of course it can, there are companies shipping products written in bare metal Go.

https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...

https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago

• usbarmory

  22 1,333 5.8 Ruby

  USB armory - The open source compact secure computer

  

Of course it can, there are companies shipping products written in bare metal Go.

https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...

https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago

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