This book is for people familiar with C or C++ who are thinking of using Rust.

Static variables are available throughout the entire life of a program. They are allocated in a block of memory known at compile time. Due to that, they tend to represent global state that the program can access. It's getting especially tricky if one stat...

System programming in Rust: beyond safety Balasubramanian et al., HotOS’17 Balasubramanian et al. want us to switch all of our systems programming over to Rust. This paper sets out the case. … (more…)

The usage of Rust started as an experiment at Sentry but became a non negligible part of our infrastructure. This is lessons learned, what works and doesn't ... (more…)

Do you remember the time when one developer broke half of the Internet? Earlier this year a package called left-pad was pulled from the NPM registry (a counterpart of crates.io for the JavaScript folks). This caused... some drama, to say the least. Shall ...