I got in touch with the admin and he’s alive but snowed under.

the admin

the

Maybe this is the problem? Should there be more than one admin?

a) significant down time b) potential loss/corruption of the existing database

Maybe the benefit of a timely update would outweigh cost of prolonged (e.g. a day) downtime and a database reset, as the instance if currently barely active and amount of accumulated content is currently small.

Obviously, it does not mean further updates should be disruptive.

Playground link is mangled as well: I needed to manually replace &s with & to make it load the gist.

I asked in the Rust Discord channels and it seems like my approach is fine. Even the mutable version is okay and doesn’t need to be unsafe if it returns the reference with self’s lifetime.

Then maybe publish it as a mini-crate (e.g. any-slice), ideally with a link to the discussion that proves that it is sound.

Note: both code fragments and links contain things like & which makes them inoperable as is.

Is anyvec crate of relevance?

Now also as an Android app: https://github.com/vi/wgserve

UI/UX is currently bad, though.

Is (or will) Ferrocene be open source?

... exclusive early access to Ferrocene releases ...
exclusive

This phrase look suspicious, as "open source" and "exclusive" typically does not mix well.

Will it be a special version of rustc with private bugfixes, like in _{"we have fixed 19 bugs in rustc that can lead to miscompilations in your missing-critical program, so you better pay us for better private rustc instead of using buggy upstream version"}?

Or will publicly available source code be exactly the same as in certified version of the compiler, with the difference only being the legal warranties?

Or will it follow something like grsecurity model, i.e. technically open source, but please do not distribute (lest lose the subscription).