rustfix

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nextaccountic·Aug 19, 2022

This is a really great idea, specially if you can write a transpiler from general C++ into modified C++ (it can error out on corner cases and ask for manual intervention, but trivial stuff like adding missing braces can and should be done by an automatic tool, like rustfix is used to migrate between Rust editions https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfix) But here you didn't tackle the main thing: a plan to make simple business logic not corrupt memory and cause havok with UB! Dereferencing arbitrary pointers is a dangerous operation that shouldn't be done in everyday code. If I'm writing data structures I'm willing to think about UB, but if I'm choosing the color of a widget I'm less so. I'm not expecting you solve this hard problem, but at least a general direction or a half solution that works for a % of the cases would be cool (or at least

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state this is a long term goal). And of course there's the comparison to Rust, but Rust is actually just a data point in this solution space and perhaps new languages can afford to try new approaches

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Nullabillity·Jan 17, 2020

> 1. Navigation: subjective so gonna let that slide. If you're going to pick a mode of navigation then at least commit to it. It's subjective whether or not any particular choice is good. The quality of the implementation, not so much. > 2. Downright bullshit. You are starting to whine. Sorry for wanting a package manager to... manage packages, I guess. Or maybe it's configured wrong? I guess it's too much to expect two Microsoft tools to work well together.. > 3. Subjective but far from something that makes the IDE a "piece of crap" Do you never edit your project files from outside the IDE? > 4. You are starying to sound like you are in the wrong industry. Compare a typical SBT build definition[0] or Cargo.toml[1] to a typical VS solution[2] or project[3]. Which would you feel the most confident about when modifying by hand? (Hint: For m

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e, it's definitely not the one that is full of autogenerated cartesian products.) > 5. No. Change the .csproj and drop the AssemblyInfo.cs usually work for something that can actually be migrated. So why couldn't Microsoft include a tool for that migration? That seems like table stakes for such a migration project. We're not exactly talking about 2to3[4] or rustfix[5] here... > If you expect any project that targeted Windows to just migrate to cross platform using a NNF you are an idiot. Amazing how Microsoft are completely unable to even get close to what the Wine and Mono people did years ago. > At the very least you could have given an example of an IDE that you consider is better. You were just talking out of your arse. Throw a dart and you'll find something. If you want the out-of-the-box live-in-your-IDE experience then JetBrains' stuff is miles better than VS. Personally I moved on to Spacemacs[6] after a few years each of VS and IntelliJ. [0]: https://gitlab.com/teozkr/what-should-i-sing/blob/master/bui... [1]: https://gitlab.com/teozkr/scankiosk/blob/master/scankiosk-ui... [2]: https://github.com/getsentry/raven-csharp/blob/develop/src/S... [3]: https://github.com/getsentry/raven-csharp/blob/develop/src/a... [4]: https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/2to3.html [5]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfix [6]: https://www.spacemacs.org/

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xvilka·Dec 28, 2019

It's possible if you provide the migration tool, something like Rust's `cargo fix`[1]. Apart from small obvious warnings, it can apply the migration from the Rust-2015 edition to Rust-2018 one[2]. Introducing the new R edition and a similar tool could help with this. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfix [2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/edition-guide/editions/tra...

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