A Tour of Safe Tracing GC Designs in Rust

I’ve been thinking about garbage collection in Rust for a long time, ever since I started working on Servo’s JS layer. I’ve designed a GC library, … Read more

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I recently joined the general code review rotation for the Rust compiler, which increased the number of reviews I do. This post describes my experience, and contains some thoughts about reviewing in general. (more…)

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Why Rust strings seem hard

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…)

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Rust vs. Go

This post is a head-to-head comparison of Rust vs. Go for NTPsec’spurposes. Read it bearing in mind that the NTP codebase has anunusual combination of...

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Rust Roadmap Tracker

As part of RFC 1728, each year the Rust community puts together a roadmap laying out a vision for improvements to Rust over the course of the year. The 2017 roadmap was decided in RFC 1774.

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