https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/deContents © 2025 <a href="mailto:dzu@member.fsf.org">Detlev Zundel</a> Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:07:54 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/rust/rust-introduction.html?pk_campaign=feedDetlev Zundel<div><p>With a few things coming together, I have finally decided to look into yet another programming language. On the one hand learning a new language is usually a good way to broaden the fundamenetal understanding of programming, but this time I do have a specific goal in mind that I want to reach.</p> <p>Only recently I have been looking at various 32 bit Cortex-M ARM micro-controllers with the vendor provided <code class="docutils literal">C</code> programming environments. Knowing modern programming languages like Haskell, OCaml or Go got me so frustrated with these environments that I decided to find a modern language also fit for this embedded space and no, I don't think Python is the answer to every problem just as Java wasn't. Ultimately, I would like to see a functional programming language in this space, but I am open to other approaches fitting the embedded space.</p> <p>Being an FSF Emacs user for decades, I am also averse to these proprietary programming environments that may have some nice features but ultimately only try to lock the developer into a vendor controlled ecosystem. Usually they are all Eclipse based anyway but are incompatible with one another. It gives me the shivers installing the n-th copy of Eclipse for yet another Cortex-M based micro-controller and I really wonder how we ended up in this very frustrating assembly of walled in environments.</p> <p>So this is the start of a small series of posts that evaluate how easy it will be to setup a programming environment on GNU/Linux for <a class="reference external" href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">Rust</a> based on <a class="reference external" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>. Ultimately I want to target micro-controllers without a full GNU/Linux system running on them, so the aim is to also get a cross-compilation setup working.</p> <img alt="Rust Logo" class="align-center" src="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/images/Rust_programming_language_black_logo.png" style="width: 200px;"> <p><a href="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/rust/rust-introduction.html?pk_campaign=feed">Weiterlesen…</a> (4 min verbleiben zum Lesen)</p></div>https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/rust/rust-introduction.htmlSun, 24 Feb 2019 20:38:22 GMThttps://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/firefox-is-cool-again.html?pk_campaign=feedDetlev Zundel<div><p>Even though it is not news anymore, I think it is worth mentioning that <a class="reference external" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/">Mozilla Firefox</a> improved by a large margin with the Firefox Quantum (57) release. Although I have been using Firefox since it started <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox">back in 2004</a>, from time to time I was jealous of the performance of Chrome and other engines. Still I never left the platform with the deep conviction that Firefox will catch up sooner or later. This time has finally come!</p> <img alt="Mozilla Firefox Logo" class="align-center" src="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/images/Mozilla_Firefox_logo_2013.png"> <p><a href="https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/firefox-is-cool-again.html?pk_campaign=feed">Weiterlesen…</a> (2 min verbleiben zum Lesen)</p></div>https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/de/posts/firefox-is-cool-again.htmlSun, 21 Jan 2018 17:10:01 GMT