Hacker News with Generative AI: Rust

Rust's Downfall: From Rising Star to Rejected by Major Projects (medium.com)
Rust, once celebrated as a game-changer in systems programming, has found itself facing a wave of criticism following a string of high-profile setbacks.
Rust, Programming Languages, Software Development, Criticism
5 points by ThatGuyRaion 6 hours ago | 1 comments
Prototyping in Rust (corrode.dev)
Programming is an iterative process - as much as we would like to come up with the perfect solution from the start, it rarely works that way.
Programming, Rust, Prototyping
22 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 5 comments
Rust's borrow checker: Not just a nuisance (mental-reverb.com)
Over the past couple of months, I've been developing a video game in Rust. A lot of interesting and mostly positive things could be said about this programming journey. In this post, I want to briefly highlight one particular series of events.
Programming, Rust, Game Development
11 points by weinzierl 2 days ago | 1 comments
Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text (github.com/cessen)
Ropey is a utf8 text rope for Rust, designed to be the backing text-buffer for applications such as text editors. Ropey is fast, robust, and can handle huge texts and memory-incoherent edits with ease.
Programming, Rust, Text Editing, Data Structures, Libraries
247 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 107 comments
Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies (tisonkun.io)
Building a database from scratch is often considered daunting. However, the Rust programming language and its open-source community have made it easier.
Rust, Programming Languages, Databases, Open Source, Software Development
122 points by tison 3 days ago | 138 comments
Data evolution with set-theoretic types (dashbit.co)
Recently I have been working on projects that integrate Elixir with native code in C and Rust. One of the Rust libraries defines the following struct (with fields removed for simplicity):
Programming Languages, Data Structures, Elixir, Rust
91 points by josevalim 4 days ago | 26 comments
Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C (educatedguesswork.org)
I've been writing a lot of Rust recently, and as anyone who has learned Rust can tell you, a huge part of the process of learning Rust is learning to work within its restrictive memory model, which forbids many operations that would be perfectly legal in either a systems programming language like C/C++ or a more dynamic language like Python or JavaScript. That got me thinking about what was really happening and what invariants Rust was trying to enforce.
Programming, Memory Management, C, Rust
228 points by ekr____ 5 days ago | 88 comments
Apache DataFusion (apache.org)
DataFusion is an extensible query engine written in Rust that uses Apache Arrow as its in-memory format.
Query Engines, Apache, Rust, Data Processing
153 points by thebuilderjr 5 days ago | 47 comments
Statum: Zero-Boilerplate Compile-Time State Machines in Rust (github.com/eboody)
Statum is a zero-boilerplate library for finite-state machines in Rust, with compile-time state transition validation.
Rust, State Machines, Compile-Time, Libraries, Programming Languages
23 points by eboody 6 days ago | 4 comments
KEON is a human-readable Serde format that is syntactically similar to Rust (github.com/eternal-io)
KEON is a human readable object notation / serialization format that syntactic similar to Rust and completely supports Serde's data model.
Rust, Data Serialization, Programming Languages, Software, Open Source
44 points by eternal-io 6 days ago | 28 comments
uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. (github.com/astral-sh)
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
Python, Package Management, Rust, Performance
6 points by behnamoh 7 days ago | 0 comments
Rhyolite: Simple text editor in Rust using Tauri, Svelte. Inspired by Obsidian (github.com/RedddFoxxyy)
A simple text editor written in Rust using Tauri and svelte for frontend, inspired by Obsidian. Discord:- https://discord.gg/K6FAd8FTma
Rust, Text Editors, Tauri, Svelte, Obsidian
17 points by thunderbong 7 days ago | 1 comments
Why Rust nextest is process-per-test (sunshowers.io)
I’m often asked why the Rust test runner I maintain, cargo-nextest, runs every test in a separate process. Here’s my best attempt at explaining the rationale behind it.
Testing, Rust, Software Development, Programming
113 points by jicea 8 days ago | 35 comments
Rust 1.84.0 (rust-lang.org)
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.84.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
New Releases, Programming Languages, Rust
20 points by TangerineDream 9 days ago | 0 comments
RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon (github.com/facundoolano)
rpg-cli is a minimalist computer RPG written in Rust. Its command-line interface can be used as a cd replacement where you randomly encounter enemies as you change directories.
Programming, Games, Rust
57 points by codetrotter 9 days ago | 5 comments
Embedding Scheme in Rust (raviqqe.com)
Rust, as a compiled language, makes it challenging to modify the behavior of programs dynamically. In this article, we embed a small Scheme interpreter called Stak Scheme in Rust to dynamically change the behavior of a program without stopping the process.
Rust, Programming Languages, Scheme, Dynamic Programming
93 points by raviqqe42 10 days ago | 10 comments
Show HN: SPath is a Rust lib for query JSONPath over any semi-structured data (github.com/cratesland)
SPath: Query expressions for semi-structured data
Rust, JSON, Data Structures, Libraries, Query Languages
35 points by tison 12 days ago | 10 comments
ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust (github.com/ruffle-rs)
Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
Rust, WebAssembly, Flash Player, Emulators, Open Source
81 points by rcarmo 13 days ago | 20 comments
Game dev in Rust: a year later (rust-lang.org)
Game Development, Rust, Programming Languages
96 points by claytonwramsey 13 days ago | 68 comments
Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust (theregister.com)
Computer scientists affiliated with France's Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in an effort to meet the growing demand for memory safety.
Programming Languages, Rust, C, Security
6 points by isaacfrond 15 days ago | 0 comments
Rohlang3: A point-free, homoiconic, and dependently typed "SK calculus" (rohan.ga)
I’ve long been obsessed with minimalistic languages that still manage to have expressive power. My usual approach: start with a bare-bones combinator calculus (like SK), then keep adding “one more extension” until it looks suspiciously like a full-blown typed language. rohlang3 is exactly that experiment. It’s a small language built in Rust that tries to be point-free, homoiconic, and (somewhat) dependently typed, all on top of an SK-like foundation—plus reflection, partial evaluation, and a weird environment reordering system.
Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Language Design, Rust
54 points by ocean_moist 15 days ago | 9 comments
Show HN: Foyer, Hybrid in-memory and disk cache in Rust (github.com/foyer-rs)
foyer aims to be an efficient and user-friendly hybrid cache lib in Rust.
Rust, Caching, Software, New Releases, Programming
18 points by tison 15 days ago | 0 comments
Rust, Reflection and Access Rules (fractalfir.github.io)
Reflection is something a lot of people wish the Rust language had: It is not hard to stumble across somebody with an interesting use case for it.
Rust, Programming Languages, Reflection
40 points by misonic 16 days ago | 22 comments
Open sourcing h3i: a command line tool and library for low-level HTTP/3 (cloudflare.com)
h3i is a binary command line tool and Rust library designed for low-level testing and debugging of HTTP/3, which runs over QUIC. h3i is free and open source as part of Cloudflare's quiche project.
HTTP/3, QUIC, Open Source, Networking, Rust
4 points by sharjeelsayed 16 days ago | 0 comments
Axum 0.8 (tokio.rs)
New Releases, Web Development, Rust
178 points by minimaxir 16 days ago | 69 comments
Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap (github.com/louis-e)
This open source project written in Rust generates any chosen location from the real world in Minecraft Java Edition with a high level of detail.
Minecraft, Open Source, Geographic Data, Rust, Gaming
476 points by jamesy0ung 17 days ago | 70 comments
Show HN: A GPU-accelerated MD5 Hash Cracker, Written Using Rust and CUDA (github.com/vaktibabat)
MD5 hash cracking with CUDA and Rust, implemented from scratch
Security, Programming, Rust, GPU, CUDA
4 points by vaktibabat 18 days ago | 0 comments
H3i: A command line tool and library for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging (cloudflare.com)
h3i is a binary command line tool and Rust library designed for low-level testing and debugging of HTTP/3, which runs over QUIC. h3i is free and open source as part of Cloudflare's quiche project.
HTTP/3, Networking, Tools, Open Source, Rust
5 points by el_duderino 18 days ago | 0 comments
How Not to Learn Rust (dystroy.org)
I've seen too many good programmers struggle learning Rust, or even give up.
Programming, Rust, Education, Learning
16 points by fanf2 18 days ago | 2 comments
Syzygy: Dual Code-Test C to Rust Translation Using LLMs and Dynamic Analysis (arxiv.org)
Despite extensive usage in high-performance, low-level systems programming applications, C is susceptible to vulnerabilities due to manual memory management and unsafe pointer operations.
Rust, C, Programming Languages, Software Security, AI
7 points by belter 18 days ago | 2 comments