Update Rust edition; Edit README; Clean up

Cargo.toml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ resolver = "2"
 
 [workspace.package]
 authors = ["Jeff Anderson"]
-edition = "2021"
+edition = "2024"
 license = "GPL-3.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://git.jeffa.io/jeff/dust.git"

README.md

@@ -47,11 +47,10 @@ aspirations are to be **fast**, **safe** and **easy**.
 - **Fast**
   - **Fast Compilation** Despite its compile-time abstractions, Dust should compile and start
     executing quickly. The compilation time should feel negligible to the user.
-  - **Fast Execution** Dust should be generally faster than Python, Ruby and NodeJS. It should be
+  - **Fast Execution** Dust should be competitive with highly optimized, modern, register-based VM
-    competitive with highly optimized, modern, register-based VM languages like Lua. Dust should
+    languages like Lua. Dust should be bench tested during development to inform decisions about
-    be bench tested during development to inform decisions about performance.
+    performance.
-  - **Low Resource Usage** Despite its performance, Dust's use of memory and CPU power should be
+  - **Low Resource Usage** Memory and CPU power should be used conservatively and predictably.
-    conservative and predictable enough to accomodate a wide range of devices.
 - **Safe**
   - **Static Types** Typing should prevent runtime errors and improve code quality, offering a
     superior development experience despite some additional constraints. Like any good statically
@@ -239,9 +238,7 @@ Dust has gone through several iterations, each with its own design choices. It w
 implemented with a syntax tree generated by an external parser, then a parser generator, and finally
 a custom parser. Eventually the language was rewritten to use bytecode instructions and a virtual
 machine. The current implementation: compiling to bytecode with custom lexing and parsing for a
-register-based VM, is by far the most performant and the general design is unlikely to change,
+register-based VM, is by far the most performant and the general design is unlikely to change.
-although it has been optimized and refactored several times. For example, the VM was refactored to
-manage multiple threads.
 
 Dust previously had a more complex type system with type arguments (or "generics") and a simple
 model for asynchronous execution of statements. Both of these features were removed to simplify the

dust-lang/Cargo.toml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.203", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.117"
 getrandom = { version = "0.2", features = [
     "js",
-] } # Indirect dependency, for wasm builds
+] } # Indirect dependency, for WASM builds
 smartstring = { version = "1.0.1", features = [
     "serde",
 ], default-features = false }

dust-lang/src/compiler/mod.rs

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ mod type_checks;
 
 pub use error::CompileError;
 use parse_rule::{ParseRule, Precedence};
-use tracing::{debug, info, span, Level};
+use tracing::{Level, debug, info, span};
 use type_checks::{check_math_type, check_math_types};
 
 use std::mem::replace;
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ use std::mem::replace;
 use optimize::control_flow_register_consolidation;
 
 use crate::{
-    instruction::{CallNative, Close, GetLocal, Jump, LoadList, Negate, Not, Return, SetLocal},
     Argument, Chunk, ConcreteValue, DustError, DustString, FunctionType, Instruction, Lexer, Local,
     NativeFunction, Operation, Scope, Span, Token, TokenKind, Type, Value,
+    instruction::{CallNative, Close, GetLocal, Jump, LoadList, Negate, Not, Return, SetLocal},
 };
 
 /// Compiles the input and returns a chunk.
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
                     expected: &[TokenKind::Bang, TokenKind::Minus],
                     found: operator.to_owned(),
                     position: operator_position,
-                })
+                });
             }
         };
 
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
                 return Err(CompileError::ExpectedExpression {
                     found: self.previous_token.to_owned(),
                     position: self.previous_position,
-                })
+                });
             }
         };
 
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
                     ],
                     found: operator.to_owned(),
                     position: operator_position,
-                })
+                });
             }
         };
 
@@ -836,8 +836,13 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
     }
 
     fn parse_comparison_binary(&mut self) -> Result<(), CompileError> {
-        if let Some([Operation::EQUAL | Operation::LESS | Operation::LESS_EQUAL, _, _]) =
+        if let Some(
-            self.get_last_operations()
+            [
+                Operation::EQUAL | Operation::LESS | Operation::LESS_EQUAL,
+                _,
+                _,
+            ],
+        ) = self.get_last_operations()
         {
             return Err(CompileError::ComparisonChain {
                 position: self.current_position,
@@ -898,7 +903,7 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
                     ],
                     found: operator.to_owned(),
                     position: operator_position,
-                })
+                });
             }
         };
         let jump = Instruction::jump(1, true);
@@ -949,7 +954,7 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
                     expected: &[TokenKind::DoubleAmpersand, TokenKind::DoublePipe],
                     found: operator.to_owned(),
                     position: operator_position,
-                })
+                });
             }
         };
         let test = Instruction::test(operand_register, test_boolean);
@@ -1227,7 +1232,7 @@ impl<'src> Compiler<'src> {
                 if let Some(Operation::LOAD_BOOLEAN | Operation::LOAD_CONSTANT) =
                     self.get_last_operation()
                 {
-                    let (mut loader, _, _) = self.instructions.last_mut().unwrap();
+                    let (loader, _, _) = self.instructions.last_mut().unwrap();
 
                     loader.set_c_field(true as u8);
                 } else {