http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test Seems like no one has implemented this classical old problem in Rust. I would have no idea on how to do it, but maybe someone else do? (more…)

Rust programs vs C++ g++ programs (performance on 64-bit Ubuntu quad core). (more…)

Lately I've been seeing lots of anecdotes from people trying to get into Rust who get really hung up on strings (&str, String, and their relationship). Beyond Rust's usual challenges around ownership, there can be an added layer of frustration because... (more…)

Welcome to the second edition of 24 Days of Rust! Two years ago in December 2014 the first edition was pretty well received by the Rust community. That was a hard time - we were still before the 1.0 release of the language. I had to keep up with updating...

Recently on a project I wrote some audio processing code in Rust. In the past I've used C++ to write audio processing code for situations where performance was critical. I wanted to take that C++ optimisation experience and see what is possible using Rust... (more…)