What are you working on this week? (May. 26, 2024) (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by secana@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?

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[-] aes@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Rust implementation of the Meta-II meta compiler. I used bstr, which was interesting.

[-] secana@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Never used bstr. What was interesting about it?

[-] aes@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Well, Rust has a lot of string flavors, and I like utf-8 being the norm, but there are a bunch of cases where enforcing utf-8 is a nuisance, so getting string features without the aggro enforcement is nice.

There's probably some fruity way to make this a security issue, but I care about ascii printables and not caring about anything else. This is a nice trade off: the technical parts are en-US utf-8, the rest is very liberal.