Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?
I actually introduced rust to my workplace this week, with a workshop reimplementing part of one of our service.
It seems people liked it. Now I want to look into how we could create Conan packages (to be consumed by c++ code) out of crates. I guess I’ll use the CXX crate to generate C++ headers, but other than that I don’t know.
Just started reading the Rust book. Made it through Chapter 3 and finished the suggested Fahrenheit/Celsius converter. Been trying to figure out the next suggestion, finding the nth number in the Fibonacci sequence.
Still working on Church A/V stuff. The software I made allows us to control an RS-232 PTZ camera via an Xbox Controller, or our slideshow program (ProPresenter). This week we switched from an Xbox Controller to a flight stick, and I added the ability to change the max speed the camera will move at in software.
I am currently writing an LSP for the shaderscript used in Godot. Its close to glsl but some differences make me not wanting to just copy paste a glsl one. I am currently trying to wrap my head around chumsky. I am coming from a lot of c code and my head doesnt work like chumsky does, so it has its ups and downs, but lexer for glsl and lexer, parser and like half oft the evaluator for the preprocessor are done and working😊
How difficult is writing an LSP? I would like to be able to use a reasonably complete implementation for Kotlin, but Kotlin is not a simple language.
Well you’re writing a Compiler with extra features to tell you where compilation failed but without actually executing the code. If the language you are trying to implement has defined a BNF for its language its quite doable and depending on the features you want to implement almost easy. There are BNF interpreters and chumsky e.g. is close to reading like a BNF. But if you’re building a language where you gotta find out the rules yourself it can take a while and finding all the edgecases can be a problem… But the project is big enough that most probably don’t finish theirs
Besides a day job, which is retooling an email backup, and working on websites. I’m taking a long lunch to work on my personal project, again.
