The Rust Lang Ecosystem — Trans Megathread for the week of December 16, 2024, to December 22, 2024
The Rust Lang Ecosystem — Trans Megathread for the week of December 16, 2024, to December 22, 2024
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Rust by itself is a great language, but what really makes it shine are its many great crates. The ecosystem around rust is one of the best there is, and its documentation is practically unrivalled. So lets look at some of those crates!
actix-web
Actix-web is an amazing web server framework for rust. It's modular, easy to use, intuitive and fast. It's also what lemmy is built on! So when you use this very site, you are using something build with actix!
Bevy
Bevy is a code first game engine for rust, based on the ECS paradigm. It's incredibly refreshing and different from most other engines. It is also unbelievably modular, in fact, just about every part of the engine cam be removed or added as you please! If you are every looking for something simple to play around, try bevy!
Tokio
The backbone of most asynchronous rust. It provides everything needed to build reliable, fast web applications!
Serde
Serde is the go-to library for serialization and deserialisation in rust. Its derive macros make it a breeze to use, and there are countless crates supporting various formats with Serde!
SQLx
SQLx is an amazingly simple sql handling crate. It is both feature rich and yet simple, and just a joy to use!
Reqwest
A neat little crate for sending http(s) requests! It's also used in Lemmy, and just about anywhere else where someone needs to do get some thing from an http(s) endpoint!
And this is far from all! Rust is a lovely language, with an even more amazing ecosystem!
Have an amazing week, everyone!
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Here’s a neat photo I found:
Can anyone guess where this was and who is in it? Date and photographer are unknown, but seems like it was probably 1920s.
That's Magnus Hirschfeld second from the right, so this'd be a shindig at the institut fur sexualwissenschaft. His partner Karl is the one holding his hand.
Yep!! I absolutely love old photos of queer people, and especially of queer people being happy. This website has a ton of them:
To add on to what thirtymilliondeadfish said, I've seen this photo captioned as a 'costune party' at the Institute. The Insitut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) was the first queer clinic in the world, established in 1919 in Berlin by Magnus Hirschfeld (the one on the right with the glasses). Hirschfeld is also the person who coined the terms 'transvestite' and later 'transsexual'.
The Institute, and people associated with it, developed the foundation of almost every aspect of what we now collectively call 'gender affirming care', including everything from bottom surgeries, early methods of HRT, hair removal, and even aspects of social transition to ease friction between trans people and the state. In 1933 the Institute was raided, looted, and destroyed by the Nazis, and the contents of the Institute were burned in the first of the infamous Nazi book burnings. When you were taught about the book burnings in high school (or equivalent), you were very likely shown the photos from that book burning.
If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy and The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture by Heike Bauer. Both of these can be found on Anna's Archive. I've also found this very interesting and absolutely glowing account by an American doctor who visited the Insitute in 1925 (CW for language, though he means well): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011423632&seq=397