Honestly if you never had to deal with more than one lifetime parameter per function and/or type, good for you! As for what 'de is used for in serde — it’s the lifetime of the data you’re deserializing. It’s not really relevant unless you’re deserializing borrowed data, which is very very rarely the case, especially when it comes to web development which I’m guessing you’re most familiar with

But typst itself is fully open-source. Saying it’s a „partially open-source project” is a mischaracterization. You don’t need to use the web IDE and it’s not strictly part of the „typst project”

If you’re 3 thousand kilometers away from it I’d make it into a headless machine by unplugging the internal display and getting a kvm for it. Or just make sure you have contact with someone who can type in commands for you when anything goes really sideways

stdbool.h (along with float.h, limits.h, stdarg.h, stddef.h, stdint.h, and some other library facilities) is required to be provided even in freestanding environment so, at least as long as you use an ISO C conformant compiler, you can always include those even if you don’t have a libc implementation

What’s your backer number? I filled in the survey right as they sent out the link to it and still nothing despite being one of the first 500 people to back this project

Make sure there’s only one strong reference and call Arc::into_inner to move it out of the Arc. Same can be done with Mutex::into_inner to move the transaction out of the mutex

People who received early units like reviewers already got access to all the repos, they said they’re preparing them for making them public and will do so before/just as first units start shipping