Tokio is a Rust framework for developing applications which perform asynchronous I/O — an event-driven approach that can often achieve better scalability, performance, and resource usage than conventional synchronous I/O. Unfortunately, Tokio is notorio... (more…)

There’s been a lot of excitement and news recently about Project Quantum and Mozilla’s efforts to build the next generation of web browser…

This post is the second post of a series describing the inner workings of a rust search engine library called tantivy. (more…)

The last time I released a preview of Llama's Rust SDK (around 8 months ago) the blog entry was filled with caveats about its limitations. Most of those still apply, but there has been significant progress. The most notable thing is that I now have par... (more…)

In this post, we start exploring CPU exceptions. Exceptions occur in various erroneous situations, for example when accessing an invalid memory address or when dividing by zero. To catch them, we have to set up an interrupt descriptor table that provides ... (more…)