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Relax: JIT compiler for Rust to reduce build times

61 points • by adamnemecek • yesterday at 9:20 PM • 25 comments • view on HN

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Sytten • today at 7:04 PM

We have had good experience with kache so far to speedup builds in CI and local

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jkelleyrtp • today at 7:57 PM

I built something similar - tbd on maintaining it - but I got Rust Analyzer emitting code and as well as running in the web. This new concept of rust compile daemon is pretty sick.

Can build and iterate on Rust in the browser!

https://dioxuslabs.github.io/rustd/

faresahmed • today at 7:12 PM

Somehow always, someone somewhere rediscovers that cutting down the time between coding and code execution makes our lives easier and to a degree be able to write better programs.

Perhaps the earliest and best attempt was Lisp's computational model. Since then, the idea manifested itself again[1], again[2], and again[3] in different forms.

[1]: Inventing on Principle, Bret Victor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

[2]: REPL-Driven Development, Stuart Halloway: https://vimeo.com/223309989

[3]: LIVE, Live Programming workshop: https://liveprog.org/

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scottmas • today at 8:37 PM

Anyone know what effect it has on targets/ bloat and dev disk usage?

kennykartman • yesterday at 10:37 PM

I knew that makepad devs were focused on build times, but didn't imagine this much!

ridiculous_fish • today at 7:55 PM

This is preposterously ambitious - a complete Rust re-implementation. Looks like it's mostly claude?

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jonstewart • today at 7:47 PM

I've been using "mr boxington" (mbx) the past several weeks and it's been a big help. https://mr-boxington.jdx.dev/

baq • today at 8:44 PM

Common Lisp lurks in the shadows, watching its own reinvention comfortably, yet another time

Surac • today at 7:21 PM

moving errors from compile time to runtime is good?

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tontinton • today at 6:56 PM

The world really needs something like this, but why such a slop UI website.

Just tell Opus 5.5 to "redesign the UI to not look like AI slop, design it like a human expert designer would" at bare minimum.

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