X11 Library Sees Lots Of Fixes With libX11 1.7 Release

[Nth_man]

Those jokes are getting rusty...

[Trevelyan]

On another topic, my wife told me last night that my toddler daughter has “deleted the internet” and if I could restore it. Perhaps if we have to recreate it, we should do so with rust?

[Vistaus]

Those jokes are getting rusty...

No worries, it's a temporary spike. Soon these jokes will rust in piece.

[brad0]

No because Git/GitHub isn't written in Rust.

What a complete and utter joke.

[creoflux]

I am glad to see that X11 library has received attention. I look at the announcement for 1.7.0 and there are a lot of older bug fixes being addressed. If the contributors happen to see this post, thank you!

[Ironmask]

What a complete and utter joke.

No, I don't write jokes in english, only Rust.

[bug77]

Those jokes are getting rusty...

Joking aside, the bugs this release fixes are exactly the type of bugs Rust prevents by design. There is a reason people love Rust, but I think nobody expects everything to be rewritten now. Though I have a hunch every developer wishes everything was rewritten in Rust while troubleshooting multithreaded or memory allocation issues

[rlkrlk]

That XIO error handler is waaaaaay overdue. I remember that headache back around 1986; someone suggested setjmp/longjmp for recovery (I was playing around with migrating clients from one display to another and wanted to recover if opening the new display failed).

[You-]

Sounds good to me! A small price to pay for the Superior Rust Future.

Any idea on rust's current status with GCC?

[xeekei]

Sounds good to me! A small price to pay for the Superior Rust Future.

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