Compiler for the B Programming Language
85 points by ycuser2 3 weeks ago | 23 comments- pveierland 2 weeks agoFun to see that it implements codegen for Uxn :)
- treyd 2 weeks agoInteresting that this is in a self-developed subset/dialect of Rust called Crust which attempts to treat it as a better C, using unsafe everywhere among other things.
- kzrdude 2 weeks agoThat's a little bit interesting. It remains then a C-like language with generics, and that sounds a lot more fun than regular C. I don't yet understand the point of avoiding references or libstd, though.
- IshKebab 2 weeks agoI don't know why you'd see that as desirable and not use Zig. Unsafe Rust is actually harder to get right than C or Zig.
- month13 2 weeks agoThis is mainly for fun, really.
Tsoding's main lesson is how simple systems can be and the desire and demand for complex build systems is silly.
- IshKebab 2 weeks ago> the desire and demand for complex build systems is silly
No it isn't. "Simple" build systems like Make don't solve many of the problems that "complex" build systems like Bazel do.
At my current company I tried to convince my boss at the start of our project to use Bazel (it's very difficult to change build systems once your project is big), because I knew from experience it would solve many problems we would eventually run into.
He wouldn't let me and wanted to keep things "simple". Guess what happened? Now we have to run dozens of hours of CI just to fix a typo in a comment. CI regularly breaks because people forget dependencies. Etc.
- IshKebab 2 weeks ago
- month13 2 weeks ago
- kzrdude 2 weeks ago
- avmich 2 weeks agoA pretty recent work: https://github.com/sergev/BCause .
- int_19h 2 weeks agoNice, but it really needs to be written in B and self-hosted.
- aap_ 2 weeks agoAlways nice to see more B. Here's mine: https://github.com/aap/b
- elvircrn 2 weeks agoHad a go at this a while back: https://github.com/elvircrn/bcomp.
- louis771 2 weeks agoHate to see Tsoding was using Rust for this. Rust is as far removed from recreational programming than any other language.
- desumeku 2 weeks agoIt's not rust. It's crust. https://github.com/tsoding/crust
"The Rules of Crust
Every function is unsafe. No references, only pointers. No cargo, build with rustc directly. No std, but libc is allowed. Only Edition 2021. All user structs and enums #[derive(Clone, Copy)]. Everything is pub by default."
- paddw 2 weeks agoI think Rust is quite a recreational language.
The least recreational languages are probably like Java,C#
- renerick 2 weeks agoIdk, java maybe, but c# doesn't even require .csproj files nowadays, it's really nice to use
- renerick 2 weeks ago
- IshKebab 2 weeks agoWhy? It's a great language. Very productive. Ideal for compilers too.
- sureglymop 2 weeks agoIs this satire or did you actually watch the streams?
He doesn't actually use rust "idiomatically". He calls this "crust":
1. Every function is unsafe
2. No references, only pointers
3. No cargo, just rustc
4. No std, only libc
...
I don't know if he is sticking to these rules throughout but that was the idea in the beginning of this project.
- desumeku 2 weeks ago
- DiabloD3 2 weeks agoThis is the most tsoding thing possible.
- ZeroAurora 2 weeks ago[dead]