New week, new Rust! What are you folks up to?
August be slow hahah
In my case, it turns out there's no Rust crate that implements a regex engine with POSIX EREs and the extensions we need in uutils awk, so I ended up coding up crates minrx and mirx-sys to use in the meantime. We also got field splitting and modification almost completely done.
This week I'd like to get some I/O plumbed up and working in synchronous mode, but I/O be scary. At least it shouldn't be that hard, because we have the sans-io abstraction quite figured out (and seems compatible with an io_uring backend!).
I recently watched a video about implementing a minimalistic Minecraft server on a low-resource device, and it seemed like an interesting idea. So currently I'm writing a fully streaming parser for 1.19 NBT tags, designed to use as little memory and CPU as possible in a networking context. My goal is to get this running on a Raspberry Pi Pico 1, which has a whopping 264kb of SRAM.