On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Minh Do <[email protected]> wrote: > My name is Do Nhat Minh, currently a final year Computer Science student at > Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. I have played with Rust and > found the experience to be very pleasant. I think Rust make sensible > trade-offs and managed to stay small, compared to C++. > > I have been granted permission by my university supervisor to work on rusti > as my final year project. I hope with this contribution, Rust will be even > stronger a competitor to Go and D. > > This will be my first time working on something this size and this long a > duration. I would love to hear your advice or experience implementing rusti. >
Hi, Minh -- It's great that you want to work on rusti! Making rusti easier to use is something we all want, but as far as I know none of us on the core team have time to work on it anytime soon, making it a great project for a student. If you don't already, I recommend hanging out on #rust on irc.mozilla.org. Don't be afraid to ask questions, and if you can identify the author of the code you have a question about with git blame, feel free to ask them directly on IRC. https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-development-policy explains how to get on the IRC channel. Feel free to ask questions here on the mailing list if you don't get an immediate answer on IRC, but IRC is the best for quick questions, and most of the Rust devs are online during working hours in the Pacific timezone. I also recommend that you document your code extensively as you go along, as well as documenting existing code when you learn about it! You will probably learn many things about existing code and you can help the next person to touch the code by writing down what you learn. There are only a few rusti bugs in the issue tracker -- https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues?direction=desc&labels=A-rusti&milestone=&page=1&sort=created&state=open -- but I'm sure you will discover more issues to fix as you start diving into the code. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://catamorphism.org/ * Often in error, never in doubt "Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom to be public, to just be who we are." -- anonymous, June 1990 _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
