Rust in Linux, Opportunity for Prolog?

[dougransom]

Rust has been making its way to linux https://www.neowin.net/news/canonical-switches-ubuntu-2510-to-sudo-rs-as-the-default-sudo/. Maybe there is an opportunity to position Scryer as a way to write safe code for linux at a higher level (maybe be embedding scryer in rust, and writing the high level stuff in Scryer)? Maybe tools like grep or lex or bison would be better writting in Prolog than native rust. Performance is not likely an issue for many of those tools.

[triska]

Absolutely! And great news: @Skgland is making great progress with the Scryer port of plwm, an X11 window manager by @Seeker04:

Seeker04/plwm#102 (reply in thread)

Please consider trying it! The PR is available at:

Seeker04/plwm#114

[bakaq]

Performance is not likely an issue for many of those tools.

If that was the case things like ripgrep wouldn't have become so popular. I don't see a point in rewriting base layer stuff in more declarative languages. Improving both safety and performance are reasons projects like Ubuntu are trying to migrate to Rust reimplementations of things. Any performance impact in lower level system components impacts the entire ecosystem above it in every layer.

I do see the point in writing new stuff declaratively however. It allows you to get much farther quickly, especially in not well understood problems. Scryer is in a really good position for that going forward.

[UWN]

Maybe tools like grep ...

Not exactly, but close

?- phrase_from_file((...,"my string-or-expression",...), the_file).

And, if you want the line number and the like, replace the first ..., by seq(Prefix) and distill the line number etc