The first thing we need to do is teach the lexer to recognise comments. We’ll begin with a test: (more…)

Rust references are very simple at runtime: they are plain memory addresses. At compile time, in contrast, references participate in more complex compiler analysis. For example, references help to prove memory safety of a program. But in this post, I will... (more…)

High-performance link shortener. Contribute to cjdenio/shorty development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

A few days ago, in the programming subreddit, Paulo Henrique Cuchi shared his experience writing a command line tool in both Rust and Go . T... (more…)

In March 2015 I started a small pilot project to ship some Rust code in the Firefox web browser. It was the first Rust code to ship in… (more…)