From 3b92763e32c9d13a80fe4ab85037d5ea4eb20c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Jung Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 10:06:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] a note on the name --- personal/_posts/2022-08-08-minirust.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/personal/_posts/2022-08-08-minirust.md b/personal/_posts/2022-08-08-minirust.md index b78dfe2..1049ac0 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2022-08-08-minirust.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2022-08-08-minirust.md @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ We have [Miri](https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/), which is a much quicker orac So I have promised for a long time to find some more holistic way to write down my thoughts on unsafe Rust semantics. I thought I could do it in 2021, but I, uh, "slightly" missed that deadline... but better late than never! -At long last, I can finally present to you: [**MiniRust**](https://github.com/RalfJung/minirust). +At long last, I can finally present to you: [**MiniRust**](https://github.com/RalfJung/minirust).[^name] + +[^name]: I am beginning to wonder if this name was a bad choice. Naming is not my strong suit. Maybe "CoreRust" would have been better? Alas... The purpose of MiniRust is to describe the semantics of an interesting fragment of Rust in a way that is both precise and understandable to as many people as possible. These goals are somewhat at odds with each other -- the most precise definitions, e.g. carried out in the Coq Proof Assistant, tend to not be very accessible. -- 2.30.2