Hello all, What can I do to help make rusti "halfway tolerable"?
Not to belabor the point, but rusti definitely needs some love -- my git version of rusti as of one or two days ago always crashes with "memory_region::~memory_region(): Assertion `false' failed." It will return the evaluated expression correctly before that, though, most of the time. I stopped before diving into that particular rabbit hole, because it seems that rusti might need a more invasive and "proper" fix. On IRC, Walton suggested flatpipes for sending the AST (which, he said, was "generally Encodable") through channels. Just wondering what the general plan of attack was and if there was anything I could do to help. Thanks, James On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Lindsey Kuper <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to give rusti more attention and make it actually useful and > usable. As I'm sure we're all aware, a good REPL is especially > valuable for a new and not-yet-well-documented language. Various open > bugs [0, 1, 2] illustrate some of the current problems with rusti, and > astrieanna recently volunteered to work on rusti, so I've been > thinking about what it needs. > > To start with, there are no rusti tests [3]. This means that even > when it's working, it doesn't stay that way for long; for instance, as > strcat pointed out on IRC today, rusti is more broken now than it was > in the 0.6 release, due to the last LLVM version bump. A `make > check-stage[N]-rusti` build target does exist (and since there are no > tests, it passes with flying colors, with 0 of 0 tests failing). > We'll work on ameliorating this situation. > > Another problem seems to be social and circular: rusti doesn't work > very well, so people don't use it, so bugs don't surface as fast as > they would otherwise, so rusti doesn't work very well, so ... . I > want to try to break that circularity by doing what we can to > encourage a culture of rusti use, once we've made the initial effort > to make it halfway tolerable. So, this is mostly just a call to > action: please file rusti bugs, or comment on the existing bugs tagged > with 'A-rusti' (a tag I just created) if you can shed any light on the > issues therein. Thanks! > > Lindsey > > [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5675 > [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5774 > [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5803 > [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5469 > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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