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Hey all,

I'm going to be moving on to my next project and have been thinking about doing an email client. I like Thunderbird, but the search is terrible, and I also want to tackle something that needs pretty high performance for processing emails etc.

Any suggestions or considerations I should think about?

I'll focus on just getting SMTP going in a CLI then I'll introduce some sort of frontend using Qt.

Always good to read about how you can speed up compile times. I mean, sword fighting on office chairs are all fun, but still....

Hello,

I have a project for which some machines have only a subset of features set. Currently, I write

cargo run --no-default-features --features "toto,titi" --bin my_bin

This is a bit cumbersome and I sometimes forget the --no-default-features --features part. I was wondering if there is a local config file that I could put in the directory to instruct cargo to use this particular subset of features. I guess this should be in the documentation, but I didn't find it.

The Sovereign Tech Fund announced, in their latest news letter, that they are investing €99,060.00 in uutils coreutils which is a Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils. And here is a link to github https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

It is time for pre-release testing....

Hi rustaceans! What are you working on this week? Did you discover something new, you want to share?

What do you think about the points the authors makes?

Kellnr 5.2.0 is released. Besides many small changes, the main feature of this release is UI support for cached crates. Until now, only private crates were shown in the UI. Now, cached crates from crates.io are shown and searchable from the UI, too.

Hello,

I am trying to use the SDK provided by the manufacturer of a camera from Rust. I use this in the build.rs :

println!(r"cargo:rustc-link-search=C:\Program Files\Digital Camera Toolbox\Camware4");
println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=SC2_Cam");

However, it tries to find a .lib file, while the actual file is SC2_Cam.dll. I’ve tried specifying the kind as dylib=SC2_Cam but it makes no difference.

Am I missing something obvious, or is it just not possible? Do I have to manually load the DLL at runtime with things like the libloading crate?

This article shows the overview of the development process of the Fish Folly game using Fyrox Game Engine.

A saw this on Mastodon, and found it interesting. Rust already prevents a lot of race conditions, but deadlocks when using a mutex is still possible (and I have actually had one myself, though I caught it during testing). So, it would be nice if it would be possible to catch these cases at compile time. Now, seems to be just a proof of concept, but it is always nice to see the direction people are going and what areas are explored.

Removing last will break my library.

#[macro_export]
macro_rules! list {
    () => {
	None
    };
    [ $x:expr, $( $y:expr ),* ] => {
	{
	    let mut first = cons($x, &None);
	    let mut last = &mut first;
	    $(
		let yet_another = cons($y, &None);
		if let Some(ref mut last_inner) = last {
		    let last_mut = Rc::get_mut(last_inner).unwrap();
		    last_mut.cdr = yet_another;
		    last = &mut last_mut.cdr;
		}
	    )*
	    first
	}
    }
}

This macro works as I expected because it can pass these tests.

    #[test]
    fn dolist() {
        let mut v = vec![];
        dolist!((i &cons(10, &list![20, 30, 40])) {
            v.push(i.car);
        });
        assert_eq!(v, vec![10, 20, 30, 40]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn turn_list_to_vec() {
        assert_eq!(list_to_vec(&list![1, 2, 3]), vec![1, 2, 3]);
    }

    #[test]
    fn count_elements() {
        assert_eq!(list_len(&list![10, 20, 30]), 3);
    }

However I got the warning "value assigned to last is never read."

How can I avoid this warning?

P.S. Full code

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