Rust gained support for fallible allocation recently.https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2116 …
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Replying to @whitequark @das_kube and
Not a fan of how any of this stuff ended up at all. :\ Seriously regret wasting so much time contributing to the Rust compiler / standard library now. It was so close to ending up as a great language for low-level use but the standard libraries missed the boat completely.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @whitequark and
I feel your pain. I was very excited from Rust, but after experiencing it from the position of Alpine package maintainer, I’m very disappointed, mainly because of Cargo. I wish someone took great concepts from Rust and implement it with minimalism and correctness in mind.
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Replying to @JakubJirutka @CopperheadOS and
What are your issues with Cargo?
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Replying to @whitequark @CopperheadOS and
Cargo is bloated everything-but-kitchen-sink. It introduces double chick-or-egg problem to Rust – you need cargo and rustc to build cargo and the same to build rustc.They don’t even provide static cargo for bootstrapping.Using git as pkgs index is horrible idea, it’s slow as hell
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Replying to @JakubJirutka @whitequark and
They made Cargo an inherent part of Rust, but it’s being developed as some hipster JS project.
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Replying to @JakubJirutka @RichFelker and
Cargo arrived after Rust, incremental improvement is totally a thing, and the distro package maintainer experience is understandably not the #1 priority. Try to be fair and kind.
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Replying to @jdub @JakubJirutka and
Having an official package manager for a language is just bad policy. It's making the language into a product, not a language.
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Replying to @RichFelker @jdub and
Admittedly lots of programmers want products not languages. It's good for short-term promotion, bad for long-term health.
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Replying to @RichFelker @jdub and
I don't agree with that. Having official package manager is not a problem (actually the opposite), having it tightly coupled with the lang and the build system is.
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Well that's probably closer to what I should have said.
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