Rust Porting Begins For Intel's "e1000" Linux Network Driver

[reba]

Syntax is very important, because you're dealing with it all the time.

I would say as long as the syntax is descriptive and clear enough for the user to understand I don't care if it uses Pascal style BEGIN/END blocks, dcl/var/val/let for declarations, different flavours of for-loops, goto or labelled jumps/breaks or neither, imperative, OO, flow-oriented, lambda, etc. pp. I have seen and used so many languages in my professional career it's really of no importance - as song as you and others can consistently get back on track when you resume a project after some months of switching.

[Volta]

Can't say I disagree. I've said it numerous times I'm not a big fan of Rust's syntax. But picking on syntax and missing the real benefits of Rust feel so childish.

Syntax is very important, because you're dealing with it all the time.

[bug77]

But for some reason this code style just feel so dirty!

Can't say I disagree. I've said it numerous times I'm not a big fan of Rust's syntax. But picking on syntax and missing the real benefits of Rust feel so childish.

[bug77]

To distinguish between newlines in the middle of expressions, and the end of a statement. Do you write programs?

That was tongue-in-cheek

[rmnscnce]

the keyword from C where it means something completely different

Fun fact, the C23 standard will repurpose the auto keyword to have a behavior akin to the one on C++.

[aretsan27]

Cool!

What driver or subsystem of Linux would you like to see ported to Rust?

I'd like some parts ported to Rust in a way such that a minimal kernel can be built without C (so just assembly and Rust). I know from rust-embedded that you can actually define interfaces in C ABI without actually writing any C. Assembly can build a C compatible stack before jumping to that C ABI interface so I think this is possible.

[Quackdoc]

To distinguish between newlines in the middle of expressions, and the end of a statement. Do you write programs?

clearly he would prefer commas

[microcode]

... why does Rust, in 2022, still require a semicolon at the end of the line? Sheesh...

To distinguish between newlines in the middle of expressions, and the end of a statement. Do you write programs?

[zexelon]

Exactly. Straight from the official docs:

if let Some(x) = Some(123) {
// code
} else {
// something else
}​

Without let, it's hard for the compiler to tell it's dealing with a variable declaration here. And a keyword just for if (and while) would just be more confusing.

But for some reason this code style just feel so dirty!

[bug77]

What wasn't said in this thread (at least I didn't notice) this 'let' word is more helpful to compiler rather than humans. In this context it makes more sense.

Exactly. Straight from the official docs:

if let Some(x) = Some(123) {
    // code
} else {
    // something else
}​

Without let, it's hard for the compiler to tell it's dealing with a variable declaration here. And a keyword just for if (and while) would just be more confusing.