Our Easter vacation is almost over. On Monday we'll have to go to work
again.
Originally I wanted to write here something during my free days, but
simply I didn't.
We decided to visit our parents and travel by car. Of course we hit a
major traffic jam when we had only about 60 km left to our
destination. And after that I missed a highway exit and had to retry.
As my wife does not drive I was pretty exhausted when we arrived - it
is about 800 km to my parents' house and another maybe 170 to my wife
parents'.
We came back home this Thursday - exhausted again, although no real
traffic jam this time - only some slow downs here and there.
Nevertheless yesterday was a lazy day.
I saw on twitter that OpenBSD 7.1 came out, so I fired up the Aspire
3690 and did a sysupgrade. Everything went smoothly, but then I could
not open chromium, its window just did not appear. As I do not have
anything important on this machine I just deleted ~/.config/chromium
and it worked again. Did the same for NetSurf and that browser also
started working again. I know I previously messed up the config of
NetSurf, but it was not important to fix it.
Then I realized that I can install rust on OpenBSD. Not with rustup,
but there is a package. And it is fairly recent containing version
1.59.0 (the current version is 1.60.0 from April 7).
OK, so I could learn rust on this machine. Shall I go with vi for
editing source code? Are there some lightweight GUI editors that this
old laptop could run? In a reddit discussion I found the following
options:
* leafpad:
based on GTK, no syntax highlighting, single file
* featherpad:
based on Qt5, supports syntax highlighting for a few select
languages and tabbed editing of multiple files
* nedit:
Motif/X11 editor, supports syntax highlighting that can be
extended for new languages, tabbed editing
* scite:
based on GTK, syntax highlighting can seemingly be extended using
language property files, tabbed editing
None of them supports rust syntax out of the box, but nedit and scite
can be extended. And they all run fast on this old box.
I think I have everything for the first steps in rust on OpenBSD. For
my notes I chose simple hand-crafted html that I upload to my VPS.
