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Thanks. Looks good! Are you aware of any 64-bit options?

If I want to do systems research that needs a simple and synthesizable RISC-V design, what are some good options? BOOM seems to be pretty complicated and I don't really need the out-of-order execution.

I also want to be able to run it on a cheap FPGA, something like Artix A7.

I personally was intrigued by this by the first HN post months ago. Then I showed my wife the website, to which she said, "This looks like a parody product." If only it's more affordable.

Harmony on mobile is pretty sweet.

Isn't wistron literally a taiwanese company?

Can you recommend you provider? I've been wanting to do the same thing for a while.

Do you find the 'stubbornness' of the compiler frustrating at all?

I actually love it. The more work I can offload to compiler the better. One simple example that frustrated me in Go was adding a field to a struct. You add the field the the whole thing still compiles even though the zero-initialized value probably broke your app logic. In Rust if I add a field to a struct, the compiler warns me about all the places that I need to double check.

Would you mind sharing some of your experiences?

I highly recommend zero2prod book which is well-written, practical, but still teaches the essential principles (https://www.zero2prod.com/). You basically deploy a CRUD app to DigitalOcean from scratch. The best way to ramp up IMHO.

How do you find the tooling?

Cargo is sweet. rust-analyzer is all I need. I need less extraneous tooling to be effective. For example, in Go I might use a task runner to watch the repo and run tests when I change a file. But in Rust I can just follow the rust-analyzer highlights and manually compile less-frequently.

Also, I've considered Diesel for ORM, so was wondering if you've been using that too.

I was not happy with GORM (https://gorm.io/index.html) and never had a satisfactory experience with any ORM. I'm a fan of writing plain SQL, even in Go. It's just that with Rust sqlx I can get compile-time checks against the schema. It's not anything new (see Haskell), but it tightens the feedback loop and I have full control of the performance.

I'm building an HTTP CRUD app on top of PostgreSQL. I have previously used Go for various CRUD apps. The experience is better except for compile time. My favorites:

1. Much more expressive type system: no more `interface{}`.

2. Algebraic data type with `enum`. Exhaustive check.

3. `serde` crate is lightyears ahead of Go's `json:"wtf"`.

4. Compile-time checks against DB with `sqlx` crate.

5. Logging is a breeze with `tracing::instrument`.

6. Using macros to reduce boilerplate has better UX than Go codegen.

What these give me is more confidence in development/refactoring because the compiler can guide me most of the way.

Low lights:

1. Build time.

2. Async is still clunky. e.g. Try to implement an `actix-web` extractor or middleware.

3. Please just stablize nightly rustfmt features already.

Except Huawei is 99% owned by employees (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3856761) and paid out $9B+ to employees last year (https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3173121/huawei-pays-ou...).

Clicking on examples gives me 403.