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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In 2017, I said that “asynchronous Rust programming is a disaster and a mess”. In 2021a lot more of the Rust ecosystem has become asynchronous – such that it... (more…)
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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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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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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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