Thank you for the advice. I will try my best on the documentation front. I go by the name MrOrdinaire on #rust irc. On Aug 28, 2013 1:36 AM, "Tim Chevalier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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