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 Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
