Rust

I've been pretty busy in my life recently, but I finally got around writing this blog post. Hopefully, things are sorted out in my personal life and I should be able to be more regular about these updates in the future.

I'm very happy to see good progress towards rustup distribution (thanks to Kobzol again!).

https://x.com/rustlang/status/1908479478159818903

• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rust-lang.org
• Mastodon: https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust

Typst, a very nice Latex alternative, written in rust has published job listings.

I built a library for working with a compression format used by Godot. It’s my first Rust library and I thought the little bit of reverse engineering I did for the format would make for an interesting blog post. Let me know what you think!

(Reposting because I still don't know understand the lemmy UI lol)

Ok so I am currently using FLTK-rs for GUI design so if there's an fellow rustacean I would like your input.

Am I making any progress in this project I have undertaken (I advise you navigate to the Files section/tab). I need some feedback

I am using FLUID to build the GUI & basically I wish to recreate LBRY-Desktop. Please do note that, I come from a non-programming background.

We're very happy to announce the first release of Ariel OS, an embedded Rust library OS. Ariel OS runs on small MCUs like nRF5x, RP2xxx, STM32 and ESP32. It is based on Embassy, and turns that into a full-blown RTOS, with preemptive multi-core scheduling and many OS-like conveniences.

We believe it offers a new combination of features that might be interesting:

• It supports writing applications as both async and threaded code, mix-and-match.
• It helps a lot in reducing boilerplate. Networking, threads & multi-core suppport, random numbers, flash storage are all readily available, with a sane and usually customizable default configuration.
• It helps writing portable applications. Ariel applications start out being fully ported to all supported boards, then get specialized. This might be interesting to library authors as well, for simplified testing on multiple platforms.
• It helps handling the little differences between MCUs. E.g, rustc target configuration, using defmt or not, probe-rs or esp-flash, are just build system flags. Ariel OS' meta build system handles the necessary Cargo and tooling configuration.
• It integrates embedded-test for turn-key testing on real hardware.
• It's all Embassy & smoltcp & embedded-hal(-async) & embedded-nal(-async) & ... under the hood, and it is easy to not use the abstractions if needed.

What we're working on right now or very soon:

• building on stable Rust
• BLE support
• a nice DSL for defining boards, aiming at no-code porting of applications
• low power handling
• a native "port" where Ariel can run as Linux/OSX application

We're at the beginning, but think that Ariel OS might already be useful to many of you, especially for reducing boiler plate and getting started more quickly.

Let us know what you think!

Join us on Matrix in #ariel-os:matrix.org.

It's getting more and more unhinged on LinkedIn.

For my library, I want to replace async_std by smol, since the former has been deprecated in favor of the latter. This is mostly just a simple translation (different module structure, names etc.), but what I don't know is how to replace async-std's stdin. Anybody got a hint on that?

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250321-call-announcement-core.html

Notes

1. Projects meaningfully sharing two programming languages get 0.5 a point each, even if the split is not exactly half-half.
2. Two projects are listed under "Multi/Misc/Other" which is opinionated, and some may disagree with.
3. Three points (5 projects) are assigned to "Unaccounted/Not Available". Two of the projects have no code at all (related to the grant, or otherwise). One project with no published code is (charitably) listed under "Python", however, since the author mentions Python+QT as the choice for implementation.

9.5 (10 projects) Rust

https://git.joyofhardware.com/Products/FastWave2.0
https://github.com/slint-ui/slint
https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server
https://github.com/dimforge
https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz
https://github.com/fdtshim
https://github.com/trynova/nova
https://github.com/yaws-rs
https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee
https://git.syndicate-lang.org/synit/synit
(0.5 rust, 0.5 shell)

9 Python (8 + 1 project without code)

https://github.com/owasp-dep-scan/blint
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt
https://github.com/niccokunzmann/open-web-calendar
https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista
https://github.com/DataLab-Platform/DataLab
https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbtlog
https://gitlab.com/py3dtiles/py3dtiles
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
https://rackweaver.app/
(says python+qt, but no code yet)

6 (7 projects) C

https://mntre.com/sources.html
https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi
https://wiki.musl-libc.org/
https://github.com/LekKit/RVVM
https://github.com/skarnet/s6-rc
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/mes
(scheme interpreter, compiler + minimal libc in C = 0.5)
https://www.gnunet.org/
(gnunet itself is C = 0.5, Anroid work would presumably use Java/Kotlin/Dart/... = 0.5 unaccounted)

3.5 (4 projects) TypeScript

https://github.com/cartesapp/cartes
https://github.com/edumeet
https://github.com/adorsys/open-banking-gateway
(0.5 Java, 0.5 TypeScript)
https://github.com/janeirodigital/sai-js
(grant is about specification work. But implementation is in TypeScript)

3.5 (4 projects) Java

https://github.com/slovensko-digital/autogram
https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire
https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch
https://github.com/adorsys/open-banking-gateway
(0.5 Java, 0.5 TypeScript)

3 Kotlin

https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
https://github.com/EventFahrplan/EventFahrplan
https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky

2.5 (3 projects) Hardware/Verilog/...

https://github.com/opera-platform/opera-dsp
https://github.com/simple-crypto/SMAesH
https://github.com/IObundle/iob-versat
(hardware part = 0.5, software is C++)

2.5 (3 projects) Scheme

https://codeberg.org/spritely/goblins
https://nlnet.nl/project/SchemeTestingFramework
(no external link in grant page)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/mes
(scheme interpreter, compiler + minimal libc in C = 0.5)

2.5 (3 projects) JavaScript

https://github.com/CycloneDX/cdxgen
https://github.com/overte-org/overte
(0.5 C++, 0.5 JS)
https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-integration-Nuxt
(no external link)

2 Nix

https://nlnet.nl/project/Nix-ControlPlane
https://github.com/ibizaman/selfhostblocks
(no external link)

2 Go

https://github.com/namecoin/encaya
(namecoint-core is written in C++, but the grant is about encaya)
https://github.com/hockeypuck/hockeypuck

1.5 (3 projects) C++

https://github.com/IObundle/iob-versat
(software part = 0.5, hardware is Verilog)
https://github.com/overte-org/overte
(0.5 C++, 0.5 JS)
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop
(grant is about mobile power management improvements, no idea about the code, but KDE/Plasma is C++, so charitable 0.5 for C++, 0.5 unaccounted)

1 Clojure

https://github.com/NyanCAD/Mosaic

1 Assembly

https://lib25519.cr.yp.to/
(grant covers NEON vector implementation)

1 Haskell

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals

1 Julia

https://github.com/PeaceFounder/AppBundler.jl

0.5 Shell

https://git.syndicate-lang.org/synit/synit
(0.5 rust, 0.5 shell)

2* Multi/Misc/Other

https://github.com/IObundle/iob-linux
(build project, a mix of python, Make, and C from OpenSBI)
https://unifiedpush.org/
(specification for Android and D-Bus. Implementations in Go, C, Kotlin, and Flutter)

3* (5 projects) Unaccounted/Not Available

https://www.gnunet.org/
(possible non-native Android yet to be written)
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop
(grant is about mobile power management improvements, no idea about the code but, KDE/Plasma is C++, so 0.5 for C++, 0.5 unaccounted)
https://nlnet.nl/project/LicenseCompatibilityAutomation
(no external link or specific info about the implementation)
https://librediagnostic.com/
(fully unaccounted, site pages "under construction")
https://github.com/mapterhorn
(fully unaccounted, from org readme "Coming soon...")

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27182983

I was hoping if I could get some help regarding Iced.rs (& maybe even advice on GUI-dev in general) since the documentation/book is a Work-In-Progress

Question is how to do these in Rust. An example might be a browser DOM: each node has a parent pointer, a list of child pointers, left and right sibling pointers, maybe a CSS node pointer, etc. Inserting or deleting nodes has to repair the pointers to and from the neighboring nodes as needed.

I know this is doable since obviously Servo (Rust's initial driving application) has to do it. I hope the answer doesn't involve the word "unsafe". But I am quite unclear about how to create such a structure under Rust's rules of pointer ownership, and also how to reliably reclaim storage when nodes and trees/subtrees are deleted. Plus there will be thread safety rules that should be statically enforced if possible.

I've heard that doubly linked lists in Rust are handled by an unsafe library, yet this seems even worse. Thanks.

Is there any way I can automatically bundle the compiled binary with the current version number as a git tag to github when I do cargo publish like stuff? Like qol thing?

In terms of its usability, not its deficits.