I’d just use the #rust IRC channel on libera.chat personally.
Edit: Maybe for the basics/boilerplate you could start with ChatGPT or another generative AI. Then if you have a specific question you could ask the enthusiasts on the IRC channel. IRC people are a lot more helpful than discord people in my experience.
Should also mention there is no substitute for a good textbook so maybe getting a PDF of an Intro to Rust type book would be a good idea as well.
Not a gamer* but as an open source participant IRC is the main chat room technology my distro uses. All of the conversations are easily archivable and searchable due to the pure text format. Main devs can use tools like quassel to make sure they never miss an @.
*multiplayer gamer. I do play single player games.
RustyTrombone: An unusual musical instrument. (Urban Dictionary)
I was talking to that guy on IRC yesterday. He was saying he still stands by his defence of Kovid in that thread. The people asking for the change were not submitting patches, just demanding that he undertake a multi-year porting effort because they wanted him to. Ultimately it did end up being ported to py3 and the process did take several years in the end.
Is Goyal still trying to maintain python 2 by himself? That thread was very funny a few years ago https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
Depends how interested you are in the infrastructure I suppose. Obviously it’s not essential for any project. I see a few that have both self hosted resources and additionally a Github mirror.
An advantage to the “old school” approach is that you don’t end up tied into a large SAAS platform like Github.
A server hosting a copy of the repo, git send-email, a mailing list and a bugzilla instance is all that an open source project really needs.
The advantage of github/gitlab et al. is that it merges all of the above functionality to one place, however it’s not absolutely essential. Git itself is extremely versatile and can be as useful as you are want it to be if you put in the time to learn it.
lol we used to call it Buttbucket at my old work where we used it. Should be a relatively easy product to deliver but Atlassian just couldn’t keep it up and bug free
This is the main development path for most distros - Debian, Gentoo, etc.
Issues are tracked on bugzilla and then the patch is sent to the developer mailing list citing the bug ticket with git send-email. Not sure about Debian but in the case of Gentoo they accept contributions via their git mirror and email. The developers keep both in sync so that new contributors (who likely use github) are encouraged but more established users can stick to the mailing list.
I’ve had great results asking about emulators such as PPSSPP
In GNU coreutils the implementation of rm doesn’t allocate memory however I believe alternative implementations do.
Here’s an example from the OpenBSD source code - https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/222e275fb89ffb67abe0726dee2b107220092dc3/bin/rm/rm.c#L335
Presumably other *BSDs use something similar? Didn’t check out FreeBSD or anything.
Edit: So I suppose if you are using a BSD-type system (maybe including macOS?), and memory safety was important to you (to the point of extreme paranoia), then you might want to look into this rust project. Or just use the GNU implementation.
I had it on an old thinkpad for years but swapped back to Debian on there recently. It’s a neat OS for hobbyists but the desktop experience is rough around the edges.
It’s similar to how linux used to be 15 years ago in terms of software compatibility.
One positive thing about it is that the source code for their corelibs is beautiful (!) GNU corelibs have been optimized to within an inch of their life to make them as fast as possible at the cost of legibility.
Interesting! I’d not realised it was so recent
I believe that the bad actor was a contributor for several years before becoming a maintainer
Practically every FOSS project is actively looking for volunteers/maintainers all of the time. More contributors are not problematic.
The xz problem was that they socially engineered the main dev into giving them the keys to the kingdom.
I am also in the single pager, latex CV club. I ended up splitting into two columns though like -
NAME
contact deets
-----------------------------------------
bio | current workplace
skills | old workplace (senior)
education | old workplace (midlevel)
projects | first workplace
OP needs to be asking for help with specific coding problems on there too as opposed to asking for a mentor like here because they’ll get the same response. Also reiterating what I said in my comment about IRC being more helpful provided you send them a pastebin.