Hello,
This is my first post to this Rust community and I am happy to introduce myself and discuss what I love about this language, but first a little about myself.
I'm Alice, Fluffy to most, and she/her are my pronouns. I'm from the UK. I got a little boy who love like crazy. I'm Autistic, suffer from cPTSD and I also 🩷 Rust!!
Rust I feel appeals to Autistic people because of it's focus on accuracy and correctness. It's a common feeling people have about the language. But as the type of person I am I love it.
I began learning it in 2023, before this I was using C++. Rust showed me the importance of error's as values and helped improve the quality of my code.
Currently I'm writing a game-engine as a hobby. The game-engine is a work in progress (WIP) and I have only just begun it's development. Since the game-engine will natively support various platforms. To ensure consistency I'm writing all the platform specific code manually and building my own custom standard library for my engine, loosely based on the actual Rust standard library.
Right now I have the code in place to create/remove directories and to create, delete, write, read and set file pointer location. Convert UTF8 to UTF16 and output to the console in Unicode (Windows C API uses UTF16) and heap functions to get the process heap and create and delete memory dynamically.
Next will be the 'config.json' for which Serde will be used. Then the logger, and so on.
So it is a WIP but it's fun and given my conditions allows me to do what I love, writing Rust code.
Thanks for reading!!
Alice 🏳️⚧️
Have you considered TOML instead? For files that need to be edited and read by humans it tends to be better than JSON due to the easier ability to split it over lines and add comments in between.
TOML is a terrible format. It is anything but obvious, especially when you have more than one level of nesting.
It is pretty annoying that there isn't an obvious format that Serde supports to use though:
I would probably go with either RON or one of the forks of serde_json that adds support for comments. I think there's serde_jsonc and serde_jsonc2 maybe.
JSON5 is seriously what I feel JSON should've been. Comments, trailing commas, hex numbers, etc.