Very cool. Are you going to submit a pull request for the ipv6 parsing? I know you said 'just for fun', but it looks comparable to the ipv4 code already there, so why not?
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zack Corr" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:37:20 PM > Subject: [rust-dev] My early endeavours in Rust > > > > G'day, > Firstly, I absolutely love Rust so far. You're doing great work. Rust > programs run fast, almost akin to C speeds. I love the syntax too, > it's clear and simplistic. The only dislike (actually more of an > annoyance rather than a dislike) I have so far is some of the > standard APIs are a bit inconsistent from module to module (eg. some > times there's a function such as `create` but other times `mk_x`, > sometimes there's `from_str` and sometimes there's just `str`) but I > understand that this is really early before release so that is not > important at all. I've made a few little things with rust that I > thought I would share in-case someone would want them. > > I've made Cairo bindings for Rust . It's a lightning faster vector > graphics library, allowing you to render it into (only PNG at the > moment) images, SVG and PDF files (I also added .ttf font loading > via FreeType). Due to me wanting to get to know rust, my love for > libcairo and rust's close similarity to C, it felt only right to > make it. At some point in time I may add a utility into it so that > you can render into GUI windows, so you could make a 2d game with > it. I'll add this to cargo-central once it comes. > > > I've made Mersenne Twister and linear congruential random number > generators for Rust . They were just a test, as I wanted to see how > the native (C) ISAAC generator would run against generators written > in Rust, and I really wanted a generator that could be seeded by the > user (I might be missing something here, there might be a way to do > this with the std::rand one already). Of course, the results are > just like you would guess running 100 tests: native ISAAC comes out > first with around 40.1k nano seconds, LCG second with around 63.9k > ns, and MT19937 comes last with 76.2k ns. Note: this is on my pretty > terrible laptop, it might be a bit more accurate on others, and it > uses a cheap benchmarking method. > > > And finally, I added ipv6 parsing and formatting to the net library . > It was just for fun, and it seems to work on all of the addresses I > tried. Note: It doesn't format into the substitution format of > addresses, because I thought it would be better to keep it formal. > > > Anyway, thanks for the hard work [continuing to make]/[making] Rust, > I absolutely love it and I certainly prefer it over the other > compiled languages. > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
