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🐧 Linux Seeing First LED Driver Written In Rust / Phoronix
｢ Open-source developer Markus Probst posted the patch series on Wednesday for the first LED driver written in Rust. This isn't a sample driver but rather a real driver targeting the atmega1608 microcontroller. The atmega1608 microcontroller is used by Synology NAS devices for controlling the LEDs on the device ｣
well i like that they aren't unconditionally sending the telemetry remotely
# Collect information and statistics about the current build, and write it to
# disk. Enabling this has no impact on the resulting build output. The
# schema of the file generated by the build metrics feature is unstable, and
# this is not intended to be used during local development.
#build.metrics = false
although the unconditional bootstrap downloads are a form of telemetry already
this one is funny
# Sets the number of codegen units to build the standard library with,
# regardless of what the codegen-unit setting for the rest of the compiler is.
# NOTE: building with anything other than 1 is known to occasionally have bugs.
#rust.codegen-units-std = codegen-units
putting up a sign saying "this is a numeric value that you can set!" as i walk away the camera zooms in to show the new sign covers up another sign saying "DANGER! DO NOT SET THIS NUMERIC VALUE!"
Ok fixed that. I had to remove the cargoLock block and add cargoHash = "" and after that the fix.1 was useful.
But now I'm back at it not building because one dep present in the workspace is missing. How to you build a single #rust executable package from a workspace with #nix ? I don't want the dep to be it's own nix package so far.
The Exofactory demo has been soft launched and is available to download on Steam. So so so much work. Lots of game dev specific stuff in this one. If you play it do let me know if you see any major bugs. Lol. Will hard launch as part of Steam Next fest but you can play it now. #GameDev #rust #bevy https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-10-07/
FYI: As part of a larger move away from GitHub, I've archived Big Brain on it and moved all future development over to Codeberg, at https://codeberg.org/zkat/big-brain
Please use that repo from now on.
Additionally: I am in the process of trying a major rewrite of the crate that I'm hoping will be much simpler, and much more efficient, thanks to features now available in recent version of Bevy! I'm very excited :)
Seeking feedback from Bevy and Big Brain users: how does this new API look?
Under the hood, this would be a high-performance, low-overhead API powered by Observers, but this is all you would actually need to write yourself.
I'm pretty sure I can get this to work with Bevy's current featureset, including the Very Fun async actions situation here.
FYI: As part of a larger move away from GitHub, I've archived Big Brain on it and moved all future development over to Codeberg, at https://codeberg.org/zkat/big-brain
Please use that repo from now on.
Additionally: I am in the process of trying a major rewrite of the crate that I'm hoping will be much simpler, and much more efficient, thanks to features now available in recent version of Bevy! I'm very excited :)
The Exofactory demo has been soft launched and is available to download on Steam. So so so much work. Lots of game dev specific stuff in this one. If you play it do let me know if you see any major bugs. Lol. Will hard launch as part of Steam Next fest but you can play it now. #GameDev #rust #bevy https://exofactory.net/blog/2025-10-07/
🦀 Rust-Written Redox OS Enables Multi-Threading By Default - Phoronix
｢ Redox OS has also been demonstrated as being able to run on a BlackBerry KEY2 LE smartphone and Google Pixel 3 ｣
I'm just gonna keep waiting until the Bevy Editor finally comes out to try and write a game with the engine in earnest. I keep getting ideas but I just don't really wanna deal with writing something as complex and difficult as a game, with my hands tied behind my back any more than I have to.
that said, I'll probably be poking around the ecosystem sometime soon, after reading those updates on the observers in 0.17. They would make big-brain so much nicer to use, and probably simplify the implementation a lot (it would probably be a full rewrite?)
More "GTK in Rust" examples. This one is just a simple ListBox.
https://gitlab.com/guystreeter/rlistbox
#gtk #gtk4 #rust #rustlang #programming
DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)
Link: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/memory-safety-vulnerabilities
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443368
#Codeberg Pages ist gerade down. Es gab mit dem Service schon länger Probleme, unter anderem deswegen, weil es zZ nur noch eine Maintainerin gibt. Es gibt aber gute Nachrichten! Ein neuer Server wird gebaut und das komplett in #Rust und #Nix! Wenn also jemensch Zeit hat unsere #digitalsovereignty , durch einen der größeren Konkurentinnen zu GitHub zu unterstützen, dann schaut euch vielleicht mal https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server-v3 an und helft mit!
DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)
Link: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/memory-safety-vulnerabilities
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443368
#Codeberg Pages ist gerade down. Es gab mit dem Service schon länger Probleme, unter anderem deswegen, weil es zZ nur noch eine Maintainerin gibt. Es gibt aber gute Nachrichten! Ein neuer Server wird gebaut und das komplett in #Rust und #Nix! Wenn also jemensch Zeit hat unsere #digitalsovereignty , durch einen der größeren Konkurentinnen zu GitHub zu unterstützen, dann schaut euch vielleicht mal https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server-v3 an und helft mit!
Last week, the long-awaited new generation #ProtonMail apps were released for #Android and #iOS! They are faster and with new features (see https://proton.me/blog/new-mail-apps for details).
Especially interesting for me is the use of #Rust: about 80% of the code is shared between the platforms now. This is thanks to #UniFFI allowing us to write native Swift/Kotlin code on top of a solid Rust core.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
![#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Copy, Component)]
pub struct Thirsty;
#[scorer_for(Thirsty)]
pub fn score_thirsty(score: Score, thirsts: Query<&Thirst>) -> Score {
score.update(thirsts.get(score.actor()).unwrap().thirst)
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Component)]
pub struct Drink { rate: f32, per: Duration }
impl Default for Drink {
fn default() -> Self {
Self { rate: 0.5, per: Duration::from_millis(500), }
}
}
#[action_for(Drink)]
pub async fn drink_action(
action: Action<Drink>,
mut thirsts: Query<&mut Thirst>
) -> Result<(), ActionFailure> {
while let Ok(mut thirst) = thirsts.get(action.actor()) && thirst.thirst > 10.0 {
action.check_cancelled()?;
thirst.thirst -= action.data().rate;
action.sleep(action.data().per).await;
}
Ok(())
}
fn spawn_entity(cmd: &mut Commands) {
cmd.spawn((
Thirst(70.0, 2.0),
Thinker::new()
.picker(FirstToScore { threshold: 0.8 })
.when<Thirsty, Drink>(),
));
}](https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/media_attachments/files/115/334/471/203/268/929/original/e48071584a2945bc.png)
