[zeromq-dev] zeromq, rewritten in Rust

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Fantix,

Nice stuff. If you want to move this into the ZeroMQ community
organization, see http://zeromq.org/docs:organization

-Pieter

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Fantix King <fantix.king at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it might be easier to have discussions if there is actual code -
> I've started a project "zmq.rs" with some very basic scratches:
>
> https://github.com/decentfox/zmq.rs
>
> The code now is meant to be discussed and heavily changed incrementally,
> hopefully with tests carefully covered. Please feel free to drop by and
> comment if you are interested, it is truly appreciated.
>
>
> BR,
> Fantix
> --
> http://about.me/fantix
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Fantix King <fantix.king at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 <lists at 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
>>>
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