It is a project! All games are, 😅, just follow the instructions from the README. You'll be solving Rust exercises on your preferred editor, and get some feedback from a terminal window. It's great.
The thing is that, in C the API could be slightly different and you could get terrible crashes, for example because certain variables were freed at different times, etc.
In Rust that is literally impossible to happen unless you (very extremely rarely) need to do something unsafe, which is explicitly marked as such and will never surprise you with an unexpected crash.
Everything is so strongly typed that if it compiles... It will run without unexpected crashes. That's the difference with C code, and that's why Rust is said to be safe. Memory leaks, etc, are virtually impossible.
Everything is better in Rust. Faster, safer... And also the developer experience is amazing with cargo.
The problem here is not Rust, it's the humans, it seems.
The dependencies are set manually, of course, and the dev was enforcing something too strict, it seems, and that is causing headaches.
But, as the debian dude has learned... Rust programs will 99.999 % work if they can be compiled.
Yes, couldn't be easier.
Pretty sure Portal and Portal 2 are playable in Linux.
I just wish every programmer completed the rustlings game/tutorial. Doesn't take that long.
I didn't even fully complete it, and it made me a way better programmer, because it forces you to think RIGHT.
It may sound weird for people who haven't experienced it, but it's amazing when you get angry at the compiler and you realise... It is right, and you were doing something that could f*ck you up 2 months in the future.
And after a bit of practise, it starts wiring your brain differently, and now my Python code looks so much better and it's way more safe just because of those days playing around in rustlings.
So yeah, Rust is an amazing language for everything, but particularly for kernel development. Either Linux implements it, or it'll probably die in 30 years and get replaced with a modern Rust kernel (Redox OS?).
We are talking about one single notification per year that serves as a notification for the hundreds of KDE programs that you normally install on a Plasma desktop.
So, yeah, it's pretty fair. And it's free software, so you can fork it and delete those lines of code anyway. It's KDE so they'll probably even let you disable it at some point in the settings.
I was a Signal defender (although I still use it because it's better than Telegram or WhatsApp) but now I'm more pushing for DeltaChat, Matrix and XMPP.
I'm just calling out your phrase saying that Telegram is not a messaging app, when it is. That is all.
But Telegram IS a messaging app? Their motto is literally "a new era of messaging".
Victoria is way more technically interesting because it is truly one shot, all dialogs improvised, and literally in Berlin, no closed sets (mostly).
Worse than what? Fully featured chat, E2EE, can be self-hosted and federated. They have it all.