Sounds really exciting! Please share the project link when there is one if possible.
BR, Fantix -- http://about.me/fantix On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Charles Remes <li...@chuckremes.com> wrote: > There was a little twitter chat over the weekend regarding an attempt at > writing a ground-up zeromq library using the new systems language Rust. If > you haven't heard of Rust, it is a new language under development by the > good folks at Mozilla. It's original designer has said that he has learned > quite a few things from implementing dozens of languages over the years > that he felt he could solve some new problems and create a cleaner > language. Rust is his attempt at such a feat. > > It supposedly solves the problem by borrowing the best from many popular > languages. > > * OOP of C++ without the large, unwieldy syntax > > * performance of C while providing good namespacing, OOP, safe > memory (i.e. no dangling pointers) > > * the functional expressiveness of Haskell but not at the expense > of imperative forms > > * the massive concurrency of Erlang but with a better syntax and a > more flexible memory model (borrowed pointers, immutable defaults, etc) > > I recently did a small test project to learn the syntax. The language is > still evolving, so it's a bit of a moving target. It's at release 0.9 with > a 1.0 slated for later this year, but they've already slipped on delivering > a 1.0 for at least a year so I assume it will slip again. > > Anyway, I'd like to volunteer to try and spike a simple example to get > things started. However, I'd like to start a thread here to discuss > "lessons learned" from the existing codebase. We already have a great > write-up from Martin Sustrik (primary author of earlier versions of zeromq) > here: > > http://250bpm.com/blog:4 > > http://250bpm.com/blog:8 > > I'm hoping that others who have read through the source have additional > insights that they'd like to share. For instance, I have seen comments that > zeromq might have more consistent performance it it was wrapped around a > Disruptor (google for that pattern if it's new to you). People also seem to > really dislike the concept of the context (nanomsg has already eliminated > this... it still exists but is hidden by the library). > > Any other insights? > > cr > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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