This is really amazing to rewrite the whole pspp kernel in Rust! For me the picture is not clear how the gui could be handled. Do you have any idea? Or do you plan to keep the Rust version text only?
> Am 01.09.2026 um 22:23 schrieb Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>: > > This year, I've spent most of the time that I can dedicate to PSPP > development on rewriting > PSPP in Rust. A big motivation for this is bugs: it is easier to write > reliable code in Rust than > in C, because of the way that the language is structured. Security issues are > closely related. > > But I've been able to do some work in the Rust version that I had not done in > the C version. > Currently, I am working on support for displaying graphs that appear in SPV > files. This will > ultimately allow PSPP to produce graphs in the full generality that SPSS > supports. I'm > making good progress on this. My hope is that I'll be able to release this > feature in the > Rust version of PSPP by the end of the year. > > I post about progress sometimes on my Mastodon account, which you can follow > at > https://framapiaf.org/@blp. I recently posted one example of progress on PSPP > graphs: > https://framapiaf.org/@blp/117197565164328276. You can also view other PSPP > related posts that I've made there: > https://framapiaf.org/deck/@blp/tagged/pspp
