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Rust starter bot #34

Closed Naalunth closed 7 years ago

Naalunth commented 7 years ago

Hey, I wrote a Rust starter bot for Light Riders. You can find it here https://github.com/Naalunth/lightriders-starterbot-rust.

You should be able to run it by running cargo run --release in the folder.

Alternatively, you can compile the bot with cargo build --release and manually start the executable in ./target/release/.

As for the issues with cargo needing a network connection, I cleared my cargo caches and compiled it offline just fine (using the latest stable release v1.18.0). As long as no dependencies are added, no network connection is required.

Naalunth commented 7 years ago

Though I should add, it would be immensely useful if you allowed the use of the crate rand, as Rust has no RNG implementation in the standard library.

JimVanEeden commented 7 years ago

Thank you :)

I'll add it to my TODO list, but it might be a while before it's actually implemented.

Naalunth commented 7 years ago

How long would you say implementation will take? Can I rely on the fact, that it will be available when the bot submission period ends (October 23rd)? Also, is it acceptable if I include a few crates from https://crates.io/ — something along the lines of libc, rand and simd, to have functionality present in virtually every other respectable programming language — in my project (see http://doc.crates.io/source-replacement.html)?

Naalunth commented 7 years ago

Also please consider using nightly Rust, it's way more fun than boring old stable Rust 😄

JimVanEeden commented 7 years ago

I'm not sure, I'll probably have some time for it this month. But we've tried to implement it before and had quite some trouble with Rust, so depending on how that goes it might take a while. Hope to get it done before the Light Riders finals start.

JimVanEeden commented 7 years ago

Rust support has been implemented. You can check the getting started page and select Rust to see the particulars. I've added two libraries you can include in your project, the others will not be available.