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I also clicked through a few times trying to get a clear description of what this is with no success.


"Start your Endeavour with a lightweight Arch-based, terminal centric system ready to personalise and a stellar community at your side"

- the front page of the site


The multiple meanings of many of the words in this sentence make it really poor at communicating what the site is about. "Endeavour" (with a capital 'E') is a proper name I associate with a space shuttle, and 'stellar' can mean 'having to do with stars'. So a first read for me leads to the conclusion that this site has something to do with space flight. And 'system' could mean almost anything. Maybe this site will let me personalize my own star system? All I can take away is that I'm not sure what this is, but clearly I'm not the target audience. Which I'm fine with.....


Rephrasing, Endeavour is something that is started with a terminal system based on Arch.

I know that's a cheesy way to say it's an Arch distro but I hope you notice how poor the phrasing is for someone trying to understand what they've been linked to.


This is a surprisingly wide-ranging video about robots and AI in context of Disney's theme parks.


I wanted to love this so much but my eyeballs were screaming trying to read the text over the crawling dither pattern.


I made it about 7 seconds


Congrats to the servo team. It's been a long road and it's amazing they kept it alive.


I've been using slint for a desktop project recently and having a lot of fun with it - it's pretty simple and the design has an interesting and fairly clean separation between the UI language and the backing application code (in Rust in my case). Recaptured a bit of my lost love for desktop apps.


How's it look and feel integration wise? Are the context menus native? Can you use native menubars?

These were a couple of my pain points with QML in the past, although they've been fixed in recent Qt releases.

If you have any code you can share, I'd love to see it.


On macOS and Windows, the menubar is native. On Windows, context menus are, too. On macOS it‘s a small patch away, we just haven‘t gotten around. (https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/7bb333c77dd477f8625c8... )

Shout out to the muda folks here and big thanks to npwoods :)


Nice, what's the story on Linux support on Wayland and Qt/GTK shells?


The TigerBeetle database docs have a page on financial accounting that is just a really good overview of double-entry accounting.


Rust was specifically designed to be refactorable and in my experience it is. It was part of the dogfooding process of building Rust in Rust - lots of changes to the language, lots of changes to the compiler, lots of churn. Rust's strong type system means you can refactor and be confident that programs continue to work.


To the students and mentors: congrats. GSoC is a great program and a great way to get involved in the industry. I hope you had an amazing experience.

Not to take away from them, but the first sentence of this official Rust post kinda stunned me: "the Rust Project participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the first time this year". There may be an interpretation of this sentence that is true, but multiple students have worked on Rust GSoC projects under Mozilla (which at the time ran the Rust Project), and quite a few worked on Rust GSoC projects under other organizations.

At the least, Michael Woerister worked on debuginfo in 2013, and Igor Matuszewski on the RLS in 2017. [1] [2]

Please Rust Project do better at remembering your history.

[1]: https://blog.gerv.net/2013/06/gsoc-2013-project-list/

[2]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/52...


it’s impressive how high-impact these projects were!


I use this daily instead of python3 as a simple calculator via the repl, and for that purpose it is indistinguishable from python.


Having so many students involved in Rust was huge. Definitely the most rewarding thing about working on Rust was seeing students get involved, grow, then turn that experience into a career, while seeding the industry with Rust talent.


Yes, but it goes both ways. As a student, I was always thrilled to see bits of future technology today.

I am still sad that some of the things I've seen or have taken part in didn't materialize and haven't taken a hold in the present.

The students you had were certainly as happy as being with you as you were having them. :-)


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