Hello! I'm on the stable docs page for 2.16 and I ...
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gorgeous-eve-12553
07/24/2023, 1:28 PMHello! I'm on the stable docs page for 2.16 and I see there is experimental support for JavaScript and Rust, how do I get access to both of those? I need this in my life.
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fresh-cat-90827
07/25/2023, 11:44 AMhey there! You can use this example repo to explore how JS backend can be used: https://github.com/AlexTereshenkov/example-javascript. If you'd like to do this in your repo instead, you only need to enable a relevant backend, e.g.
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[GLOBAL]
pants_version = "2.17.0rc2"
backend_packages.add = [
"pants.backend.experimental.javascript",
]fresh-cat-90827
07/25/2023, 11:56 AMas for Rust, I don't think we have yet a dev release with the Rust backend support, with the latest release being 2.18.0.dev5. You can however run Pants from sources, please see https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.17/docs/running-pants-from-sources if you are eager 🙂
with the
"pants.backend.experimental.rust"rust_package(name="rust-package", sources=["<http://hello.rs|hello.rs>"]) Copy code
❯ ./pants_from_sources peek helloworld:rust-package
[
{
"address": "helloworld:rust-package",
"target_type": "rust_package",
"dependencies": [],
"description": null,
"skip_rustfmt": false,
"sources": [
"helloworld/hello.rs"
],
"sources_fingerprint": "bd34f5c3c05f1d3d6b823bdb2f499f34a4fbbe798d7481e95edbc8f7ed346f1a",
"sources_raw": [
"<http://hello.rs|hello.rs>"
],
"tags": null
}
]fresh-cat-90827
07/25/2023, 11:57 AMyou are also very welcome to explore the discussions around adding Rust support you can find at https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/15775 and https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/discussions/17502