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Rust by itself is a great language, but what really makes it shine are its many great crates. The ecosystem around rust is one of the best there is, and its documentation is practically unrivalled. So lets look at some of those crates!
actix-web
Actix-web is an amazing web server framework for rust. It's modular, easy to use, intuitive and fast. It's also what lemmy is built on! So when you use this very site, you are using something build with actix!
Bevy
Bevy is a code first game engine for rust, based on the ECS paradigm. It's incredibly refreshing and different from most other engines. It is also unbelievably modular, in fact, just about every part of the engine cam be removed or added as you please! If you are every looking for something simple to play around, try bevy!
Tokio
The backbone of most asynchronous rust. It provides everything needed to build reliable, fast web applications!
Serde
Serde is the go-to library for serialization and deserialisation in rust. Its derive macros make it a breeze to use, and there are countless crates supporting various formats with Serde!
SQLx
SQLx is an amazingly simple sql handling crate. It is both feature rich and yet simple, and just a joy to use!
Reqwest
A neat little crate for sending http(s) requests! It's also used in Lemmy, and just about anywhere else where someone needs to do get some thing from an http(s) endpoint!
And this is far from all! Rust is a lovely language, with an even more amazing ecosystem!
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had a migraine yesterday so trying not to look at shit, decided to finally read (listen to) Nevada. and damn it was so fucking good, thanks for yapping about it @ashinadash@hexbear.net
my spoilery thoughts
i was initially a bit shocked by the ending but i let the afterward play and was satisfied with the reasoning. i do really like the representations of "pre" and "post" transition thing. Maria kind of awestruck me for the first half before i realised how much closer i was to James' end of that particular part of the journey. but dear god, i hope that one day i can feel as comfortable in my gender as Maria does
also i really liked the traffic light analogy, which made the fact it was stolen even funnier
When my yapping bears fruit
I doubt I'll ever tire of talking about ol Orange Book, a forever pleasure of mine.
I guess that sort of hard stop is still new to a lot of people, which rules, I'm a big fan. I spent a year or two wrapping my head around it so you're well ahead of me, lol. I also never thought about it like that, but yeah, I guess Maria is pretty comfortable in her gender even if literally every other aspect of being trans is ruining her life. That's probably why I idolised her a lot as a teen...
Y'know what though, I'm not sure how I feel ahout that traffic light thing nowadays. It's a weird thing to have her say, right next to "Kate Bornstein didn't go far enough", I think. I never really "got it" though, like I get what it's saying...
thank you for the time, the orange book ritual worked
i definitely felt a drop in my heart when James just straight up got on the bus and didn't look back. but i also think that i might have reacted the same way if someone tried to drag me out of my conformable, stoner, "no i'm definitely cis" state a few years before i was ready (is James ever ready? my reading is that he will be, just not in the amount of time that Maria pushes for) - as much as i now wish someone had. there was a relevant quote in the afterward for this -
which is something i'll have to work on...
that's cool, i appreciate the different view on it. a paragraph explaining why i liked it was meant to be here but i wasn't happy with it. could you tell me more? i would love to hear what you think on the matter
I have always liked Nevada as sort of an antidote to this. Nobody deserves to self-flagellate like that...
I guess I have all kinds of weird new views on orange book in light of the fact that Whipping Girl is uh, what it is. I guess the cars-which-also-are-constructs statement feels a bit mean spirited, knowing where the book gets its "theory" from. I dunno, you know the bit where Maria is talking about realising the whole, 'there is going to have to be some intentionality in the way I present myself if I want to be read correctly'? I hang on that one too because, in orange book parlence: Dude, no? Actually as it turns out, there are plenty of cases where you discover that the cars aren't constructed that well and you can pretty much ignore traffic lights, I think. At the very absolute least this is not universal knowledge.
I mean, I dunno right, the traffic light bit is right fuckin next to the paragraph yapping about how in some dyke communities that trans guys come from, having a punk rock gender is kind of chic, and it's hard to read this as not being kind of shitty when the word "subversivism" keeps flashing through my head.
Also there is this part that utterly kills me:
I love you, Maria Griffiths. Trans men get to have all the fun, for sure.
I suppose in total I have difficulty not reading most things Maria says about gender as being reductive, and some part of me takes joy in the fact that it sucks to suck, for her. The close proximity almost makes me wonder if it's deliberately taking the piss out of her again, but I find it hard to parse this as a secret own on Whipping Girl, Idk.
The traffic light passage next to the punk rock hairstyle passage for sure feels icky even within the text's own context.
I mean if Maria/Binnie meant it in like a "gender roles suck but you have to appease the cis or you risk harm" way then I can only read the passages re: trans guys as her saying that trans guys have safety and privilege to genderfuck openly. (i.e. subversivism)