One of the wonderful things about watch collecting is that there are an incredible number of different levels on which you can go at it. Sure, we all spend a lot of time hearing about a lot of the same things, from a lot of the same auction results, to a ...

We write a lot of C++ here at OkCupid. It's pretty great, except when it's really not. I've been evaluating Rust as another potential language for our Backend Team. It seems to fit in quite nicely with a lot of our existing code base and I like a lot of... (more…)

Rust  and GTK+ can be used to create cross-platform graphical applications. " GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphica... (more…)

One feature of Rust that I'm rather enamoured with is its macro system. Known as "macro by example" (MBE) or sometimes referred to as macro_rules, it provides you with an impressive amount of power whilst not allowing for the sort of evil tricks you can ... (more…)

To help bring our 2017 vision for Rust to fruition, the Rust subteams are launching initiatives targeted at specific roadmap goals. This post covers the library team’s major initiative: raising a solid core of the Rust crate ecosystem to a consistent leve... (more…)