Abstract Wikipedia is an in-development project of the Wikimedia Foundation. It aims to use Wikifunctions to create a language-independent version of Wikipedia using its structured data.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

It sounds interesting but who in the world is going to write article in the abstract wiki? It doesn't seem at all accessible.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In this way, we can avoid relying on subprocesses and instead use threads (or, technically, asynchronous tasks) in Rust. Threads/tasks are much easier to manage

I believe, in their case cancelling a sync operation will not be a problem because they will not forever block on executing user-provided code, but cancelling a synchronous thread is not easy, afaik

[–] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://docs.rs/stop-thread/latest/stop_thread/fn.kill_thread_graceful.html

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Available on Unix only.

Only kills the thread if it has enabled cancellation

I mean, they will probably set it up correctly to be able to use it