Subj : take my compiler ... please
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Andrew Alt
Date : Sun Aug 02 2020 15:22:04

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Hi Maurice! (And everyone else)

andy@oceanus:~$ rustc --version
rustc 1.45.1 (c367798cf 2020-07-26) andy@oceanus:~$ ldd `which rustc`
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc5dd7b000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcad2330000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcad2326000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcad23
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fcad22eb00
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcad212a000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcad1fa7000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcad2f10000)

So I've been working with Rust the last few weeks. I started learning it about a
year ago but got frustrated and quit for a while. Though I normally can only program for a month or two before I need a break from physical pain associated with using the computer.

But anyway, this time when I got stuck, I used some of their support methods available.

So far I've been finding Rust pretty interesting and cool. I released the first

version of configster, a library for parsing config file: https://crates.io/crates/configster

I did that library because I needed a way to parse config files, as I'm also working on oxi-rmw, a Rust port of rmw (a C program I started 10 years ago).

I find that building is noticeably slower on Rust, but on the up-side, I spend less time on certain bits of code and debugging.

I won't do any more of a review than that I guess, as there's plenty of docs online. ;)

--
-Andy

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