Rust

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23822190

I added this language to my watch list some time ago and forgot about it, until I got a notification about a new release (0.15) yesterday.

I'm someone who is familiar with system languages (C, Rust) and shell languages (Bash, Zsh, ..). But don't have much experience, at a proficient level, with any languages setting in between.

So I gave Koto's language guide a read, and found it to be very well-written, and the premise of the language in general to be interesting. I only got annoyed near the end when I got to @base, because I'm an anti-OOP diehard 😉

I hope this one well start to enjoy some adoption.

Hello,

I was making a pastebin in Rust which I shared to the Rust community but there was one person who asked "why didn't you use upload functionality of axum" (I implemented the upload functionality using by simply using TCP connection). now I think that it might be a good idea to have file upload using axum but I couldn't find how to do it in their documentation. could someone point me to the right direction please? :)

the code I have written isn't very idiomatic or efficient. I am still new to Rust so I am learning things. I am amazed that I can write a pastebin in just 60 lines of Rust code. It's awesome. I am thinking about deploying it on my server.

any suggestions would be appreciated :)

code:

use axum::{extract::Path, routing::get, Router};
use std::fs::{read_to_string, File};
use std::io::prelude::*;
use std::net::{TcpListener, TcpStream};
use std::str;

const MAX_FILE_SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024 * 10;
static mut FILE_COUNT: usize = 0;

fn handle_client(stream: &mut TcpStream) -> std::io::Result<()> {
    let mut buf = vec![0; 1024];
    unsafe {
        let file_name = FILE_COUNT.to_string();
        FILE_COUNT += 1;
        let mut file = File::create(file_name)?;
        let mut size: usize = 0;
        loop {
            let read_data = stream.read(&mut buf).unwrap();
            size += read_data;
            if size >= MAX_FILE_SIZE {
                return Ok(())
            }
            if read_data == 0 {
                return Ok(());
            }
            stream.write_all(&buf[..read_data]).unwrap();
            write!(file, "{}", str::from_utf8(&buf[..read_data]).unwrap())?;
        }
    }
}

async fn upload_handle() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    let listener = TcpListener::bind("127.0.0.1:8080")?;

    // accept connections and process them serially
    for stream in listener.incoming() {
        handle_client(&mut stream?)?;
    }

    Ok(())
}

async fn handle(Path(id): Path<String>) -> String {
    if let Ok(content) = read_to_string(id) {
        return content;
    }
    return String::from("ERROR: File not found");
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    tokio::spawn(upload_handle());

    let app = Router::new()
        .route("/", get(|| async { "Paste something in pastebin!" }))
        .route("/{id}", get(handle));

    let listener = tokio::net::TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:3000").await.unwrap();
    axum::serve(listener, app).await.unwrap();
}

There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.

Intro / TLDR

I was intrigued to learn that the Roc language rewrote their standard library from Rust to Zig. What made Zig the better option?

They wrote that they were using a lot of unsafe Rust and it was getting in their way. They also mentioned that Zig had “more tools for working in a memory-unsafe environment, such as reporting memory leaks in tests”, making the overall process much better.

So is Zig a better alternative to writing unsafe Rust?

I wanted to test this myself and see how hard unsafe Rust would be by building a project that required a substantial amount of unsafe code.

Then I would re-write the project in Zig to see if would be easier/better.

After I finished both versions, I found that the Zig implementation was safer, faster, and easier to write. I’ll share a bit about building both and what I learned.

Hello,

some time ago I shared a Guess game that I made from scratch and this time I thought to do something different so I decided to make a Guess game over IRC.

It's pretty basic but I learned a lot about destructing Enum, unwrap and if let syntax.

I would appreciate any suggestion :)

here is the source code:

use futures::prelude::*;
use irc::client::prelude::*;

use rand::Rng;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> irc::error::Result<()> {
    let config = Config {
        nickname: Some("beep_boop".to_owned()),
        server: Some("irc.libera.chat".to_owned()),
        channels: vec!["#test".to_owned()],
        ..Default::default()
    };

    let mut client = Client::from_config(config).await?;
    client.identify()?;

    let mut stream = client.stream()?;
    let mut secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(0..101);
    let mut attempts = 0;

    while let Some(message) = stream.next().await.transpose()? {
        print!("{}", message);

        match message.command {
            Command::PRIVMSG(channel, message) => {
                if let Some(command) = message.get(0..6) {
                    if command == "!guess" {
                        let parts = message.split(' ').collect::<Vec<_>>();
                        if let Some(part2) = parts.get(1) {
                            if let Ok(num) = part2.to_string().parse::<u32>() {
                                println!("{:?}", num);
                                if num == secret_number {
                                    client.send_privmsg(&channel, format!("You won with {attempts} attempts! generating next number")).unwrap();
                                    secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(0..101);
                                    attempts = 0; // reseting the number of attempts 
                                } else if num > secret_number {
                                    client.send_privmsg(&channel, "too high").unwrap();
                                    attempts += 1;
                                } else {
                                    client.send_privmsg(&channel, "too low").unwrap();
                                    attempts += 1;
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                else {
                    continue;
                }
                if message.contains(client.current_nickname()) {
                    client.send_privmsg(channel, "beep boop").unwrap();
                }
            },
            _ => println!("IRC command not implemented: {message}"),
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}

Hello,

I learned about struct in Rust, so I just wanted to share what I have learned.

what is struct in Rust? It's the same as what's in C language. eg,

struct Point {
    x: i32,
    y: i32,
}

that's it this is how we define a struct. we can create all sort of struct with different data types. ( here I have used only i32 but you can use any data type you want)

now Rust also have which we find in OOPs languages like Java. it's called method. here is how we can define methods for a specific struct in Rust.

impl Point {
    fn print_point(&self) {
        println!("x: {} y: {}", self.x, self.y);
    }
}

see it's that easy. tell me if I forgot about something I should include about struct in Rust.

hello,

last time I made a fibonacci series generator in Rust and now I have made something different :)

use std::io;

fn main() {
    let mut input: String = String::new();
    let stdin = io::stdin();

    let x = rand::random::<u32>() % 101;
    let mut attempts = 0;

    loop {
        println!("Guess a number from 0 to 100:");
        stdin.read_line(&mut input);
        input = input.to_string().replace("\n", ""); // removing the \n
        let user_input: u32 = input.parse::<u32>().unwrap();
        if x == user_input {
            println!("You won! attempts: {attempts}");
            break;
        }
        else if x < user_input {
            println!("too big");
            attempts += 1;
        }
        else {
            println!("too small");
            attempts += 1;
        }
        input.clear()
    }
}

feel free to give me suggestion :)

Hello,

As I said in the previous post that I have started learning Rust and made a simple fibonacci series generator. Today I made a palindrome string checker. it's very basic. I haven't used Enum or Struct in the code since I don't think it's necessary in this simple code.

here is the code:

use std::io;

fn main() {
    let mut input = String::new();
    let stdin = io::stdin();
    stdin.read_line(&mut input).unwrap(); // we want to exit in case it couldn't read from stdin

    input = input.replace("\n", ""); // Removing newline

    let mut is_palindrome: bool = true;
    for i in 0..input.len()/2 {
        let first_char: &str = &input[i..i+1];
        let last_char: &str = &input[input.len()-i-1..input.len()-i];
        if first_char != "\n" {
            if first_char != last_char {
                is_palindrome = false;
            }
        }
    }

    println!("palindrome: {}", is_palindrome);
}

End of the year release with lots of improvements across the board.

I've been trying to learn the fuzzing library LibAFL for a while now, but I never seem to be able to fully grasp the essential parts. I've read tutorials, followed along tutorials, read the whole LibAFL book (that's still under construction), and have read a few of the examples in the repo. You could say I'm still in tutorial hell, honestly.

I'm trying to write a simple fuzzer for a malware code sample (MooBot) and I've been trying to figure out two things: how to find the input that has the maximum run time for a function, and how to not run malware directly on my computer. One of them should be more important than the other, but given my lack of expertise in LibAFL right now, I'm focused on the former. For my example, I noticed that there's a custom trim function in MooBot that helps sanitize input:

void trim(char *str)
{
        int i, begin = 0, end = strlen(str) - 1;

    while (isspace(str[begin]))
        begin++;

    while ((end >= begin) && isspace(str[end]))
        end--;

    for (i = begin; i <= end; i++)
        str[i - begin] = str[i];

    str[i - begin] = '\0';
}

This is what I test in my harness. I know I could probably logic my way into finding the input that has the max run time, but I'm using this as an exercise for LibAFL and using the rust FFI. The problem is how to deal with feedbacks and observers. I currently have this with no observers:

let mut feedback = CrashFeedback::new();
let mut objective = CrashFeedback::new();

Which simply reports an input if it crashes the program. It works for inital fuzzing, but now that I'm trying to find an input that maximizes run time this won't work. I tried to figure if there was a maximization feedback that would work with the time observer, but the only feedback that maximizes anything is the MaxMapFeedback which doesn't seem compatible with the time observer.

What I'm envisioning is something like this:

let mut observer = TimeObserver::new();
let mut feedback = MaximizeFeedback::new(&observer);

I think the solution has something to do with MapFeedbacks, but I'm not exactly sure how they work.

Hi, I've been working on this app for playing MIDI files with different soundfonts. It's been a few months of work, but I think it's inching towards being good enough to publish for real. There are still a couple fundamental features missing before v1.0.0, but I thought it would be a good time to share it and ask for opinions in a programming community. Any critique on the app, or code? Do people out there even care about midi files this much? Thanks.

I was recently furloughed from work, so in between job applications, I decided to polish off Sonarr support in my Managarr TUI. Thus, I'm very proud to announce the beta release of Managarr with Sonarr support!

TL;DR: Managarr is a TUI and CLI for managing your Servarr instances. As of now, it now supports both Radarr and Sonarr and all the features that are available in the UI are also available in the CLI for scripting and additional automation.

The new version has the following features:

• Wider platform support (Windows, Mac, Linux, x86_64 and arm64)
• View your library, downloads, blocklist, episodes
• View details of a specific series, or episode including description, history, downloaded file info, or the credits
• View your host and security configs from the CLI to programmatically fetch the API token, among other settings
• Search your library
• Add series to your library
• Delete series, downloads, indexers, root folders, and episode files
• Trigger automatic searches for series, seasons, or episodes
• Trigger refresh and disk scan for series and downloads
• Manually search for series, seasons, or episodes
• Edit your series and indexers
• Manage your tags
• Manage your root folders
• Manage your blocklist
• View and browse logs, tasks, events queues, and updates
• Manually trigger scheduled tasks
• Manually trigger scheduled tasks
• And more!

Here's some screenshots of the Sonarr tab:

Thanks to everyone's feedback when I first posted the alpha release here, this version sports a handful of additional performance improvements and platform support.

This is now technically in beta, so if anyone encounters any issues, please let me know!

Hey all! Read a lot of good things about Rust and I was getting pretty bored and often annoyed with building new FastAPI apps. I'm just getting started, from my research Poem seems to be doing the same thing as FastAPI kinda and I'm using SeaORM for the DB.

So far I'm loving it, Cargo.toml looks a lot like Poetry in Python but in VSCode it magically shows me the latest versions of all dependencies. Debugging is really nice because I can just copy & paste compiler messages into an LLM or Google them. It was a bit of a hassle to get all dependencies to work together and to get the thing to compile at first but now it works and I'm happy.

That being said is there anything else I need to know? I still have a very limited understanding of the whole ownership thing but e.g. I understand the benefits of passing variables instead of copying them so I guess that's a start?

The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

fjärrinlägg från: https://lemmy.world/post/22673996

This mod is written in an unconventional way: it is written in Rust. The Rust code is here. It uses JNI and JVMTI to interact with Java objects. The only Java code in this mod is for loading the compiled native binary into memory.

I'm happy to have received reviews and merged more than 10 patches to GCC lately (12, to be exact). There are around 6 left to merge (and a couple of others to send to the mailing list).

HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268819