Hello,

This is my first post to this Rust community and I am happy to introduce myself and discuss what I love about this language, but first a little about myself.

I’m Alice, Fluffy to most, and she/her are my pronouns. I’m from the UK. I got a little boy who love like crazy. I’m Autistic, suffer from cPTSD and I also 🩷 Rust!!

Rust I feel appeals to Autistic people because of it’s focus on accuracy and correctness. It’s a common feeling people have about the language. But as the type of person I am I love it.

I began learning it in 2023, before this I was using C++. Rust showed me the importance of error’s as values and helped improve the quality of my code.

Currently I’m writing a game-engine as a hobby. The game-engine is a work in progress (WIP) and I have only just begun it’s development. Since the game-engine will natively support various platforms. To ensure consistency I’m writing all the platform specific code manually and building my own custom standard library for my engine, loosely based on the actual Rust standard library.

Right now I have the code in place to create/remove directories and to create, delete, write, read and set file pointer location. Convert UTF8 to UTF16 and output to the console in Unicode (Windows C API uses UTF16) and heap functions to get the process heap and create and delete memory dynamically.

Next will be the ‘config.json’ for which Serde will be used. Then the logger, and so on.

So it is a WIP but it’s fun and given my conditions allows me to do what I love, writing Rust code.

Thanks for reading!!

Alice 🏳️‍⚧️

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
    0·
    11 days ago

    TOML is a terrible format. It is anything but obvious, especially when you have more than one level of nesting.

    It is pretty annoying that there isn’t an obvious format that Serde supports to use though:

    • YAML is an awful format (worse than TOML in many ways). serde-yaml is abandoned anyway.
    • serde_json is great but dtonlay refuses to support comments/trailing commas
    • serde_json5 is an option but JSON5 doesn’t have good IDE support.

    I would probably go with either RON or one of the forks of serde_json that adds support for comments. I think there’s serde_jsonc and serde_jsonc2 maybe.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      11 days ago

      TOML… nesting

      If you’re doing a lot of nesting in your config, you should rethink your config. Config should be pretty flat.

      If you’re putting data in TOML, you’re doing it wrong. If your config needs to include data, IMO it should just reference the data in a separate file that uses a proper data format (e.g. JSON).

      TOML rocks precisely because it nudges you into making simpler configs. Nesting is inherently hard to read (see endless debates over indentation standards), and TOML sidesteps the whole problem elegantly, forcing you to think about whether you actually need it. In most cases you don’t, and when you do, it’s possible and not unreasonable.