Since my last post I've been working on building the humble beginnings of an ecosystem around the ESP32 for Rust. The short version of this post is as follows: (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...

There has been a lot of discussion lately about Rust’s allocator story, and in particular our relationship to jemalloc. I’ve been trying to catch up, and I w... (more…)

There's a question that always comes up when people pick up the Rust programming language: why are there two string types? Why is there String, and &str? My Declarative Memory Management article answers the question partially, but there is a lot more ... (more…)

The container ecosystem is growing up. Proprietary implementations are gradually being replaced by open standards. One of the most important standards from the open container initiative is the oci-runtime spec, which allows alternative container runtimes ... (more…)