... implemented in Rust!!! Having skimmed through quite a few Rust projects on Github lately I am overwhelmed by the amount of code in them. I feel lost looking at any random file, it's too OOP-y for me, I can't really see what it's doing.
I start to feel a little insecure about my own abilities, I've mostly focused on building small components or little systems from the ground (in C) up with minimal or no libraries. That works and is rewarding, until the project becomes unmanageable because of some aspect that I'd done poorly, and I start a new project that focuses on exploring the particular kind of subsystem that I didn't know how to do properly.
It also seems like the following is a pattern. I checked out that intimidating Rust project using git. It's something like 50MB to download. Then I run "cargo build". I wait 5-10 minutes and it is still "fetching". At some point, it goes on to compile 550 (!) transitive dependencies. A little while later, the build failed, could not compile libc, unicode-xid, cfg-if, proc-macro2. Not sure, maybe I have the wrong version of "cargo" installed?
I get back to my small current hobby project, which is somehow more rewarding to me since I can still check it out on a fresh Linux or Windows box, run "build.sh" and run it. That whole process can complete in 20 seconds.
Am I too stubborn? Or should a terminal emulator really be not such a massive project? (No offense meant).
I start to feel a little insecure about my own abilities, I've mostly focused on building small components or little systems from the ground (in C) up with minimal or no libraries. That works and is rewarding, until the project becomes unmanageable because of some aspect that I'd done poorly, and I start a new project that focuses on exploring the particular kind of subsystem that I didn't know how to do properly.
It also seems like the following is a pattern. I checked out that intimidating Rust project using git. It's something like 50MB to download. Then I run "cargo build". I wait 5-10 minutes and it is still "fetching". At some point, it goes on to compile 550 (!) transitive dependencies. A little while later, the build failed, could not compile libc, unicode-xid, cfg-if, proc-macro2. Not sure, maybe I have the wrong version of "cargo" installed?
I get back to my small current hobby project, which is somehow more rewarding to me since I can still check it out on a fresh Linux or Windows box, run "build.sh" and run it. That whole process can complete in 20 seconds.
Am I too stubborn? Or should a terminal emulator really be not such a massive project? (No offense meant).