[–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nice to see continuous progress in Rust for Linux, especialy since it's seems efforts to stabilise Rust features so that RLA doesn't depend anymore on nightly seems to be fructiful.

I'm looking forward for when a big driver (like ashahi or the Nvdia one) are merged in master. It's going to be a big milestone.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I personally factorize as soon as there are two copies, but do not hesitate to inline the code and redo the abstraction when there is a 3rd use if it doesn't fit. I find it much easier to inline and re-abstact a bad abstraction, than check if two copies are indeed identical.

    The exception is business logic. Usually I want all of them to be dupplicates because there is a very high chance that it's just accidental that part of the logic is similar. I take great care to have good primitives but the actual business logic that glue those primitives together is written as many time as needed.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    First experience with #jj #jujitsu

    I tried the equivalent of git add -p (jj squash -i).

    • I realize that it’s closer to git add --interactive (which I find much more complicated and less productive)
    • I wasn’t able to edit a hunk (like the e key in git add -p) which I use a lot to split debug statements from real work

    I generated a conflict (as I expected)

    • I found no way to show the original diff
    • jj undo did not worked (I have not been able to undo the jj squash that introduced the conflict

    Very not impressed so far. Fortunately it was a test repo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Like how the average computer user is never going to [...] install Firefox or whatever.

    Not right know but in 2005-2010 (or something like that), the average user was installing firefox because IE was so bad. It used to be at 80% market share IIRC.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I think you have a hard time understanding the différence between "not possible" and "much harder".

    In Rust, the code does not compile.

    In C++ the code compile, but

    • if you have a test case
    • this test case triggers the bug (it is not guarateed to properly reproduce you production environment since it depends on the parameters of the allocator of your vector)
    • you use ubsan

    ... then the bug will be caught.

    Yes it is possible, noone says the opposite. But you can't deny it's harder. And because its harder, more bugs get past review, most notably security bugs as demonstrated again and again in many studies. The

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    The Rust for Linux (RFL) project may not have (yet) resulted in user-visible changes to the Linux kernel, but it seems the wider world has taken notice. Hongyu Li has announced that the Rust for Linux code is now part of a satellite just launched out of China. The satellite is running a system called RROS, which follows the old RTLinux pattern of running a realtime kernel alongside Linux. The realtime core is written in Rust, using the RFL groundwork.

    Despite its imperfections, we still want to share RROS with the community, showcasing our serious commitment to using RFL for substantial projects and contributing to the community's growth. Our development journey with RROS has been greatly enriched by the support and knowledge from the RFL community. We also have received invaluable assistance from enthusiastic forks here, especially when addressing issues related to safety abstraction

    (Thanks to Dirk Behme).

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