The zip crate is the most commonly used Rust library for manipulating ZIP archives. It supports reading and writing .zip files with different compression methods (store, deflate, bzip2). There are at least three crates for LZMA (de)compression on crates.i...

my report form Code::Dive 2017, Wroclaw, 14-15 November... (more…)

To help bring our 2017 vision for Rust to fruition, the Rust subteams are launching initiatives targeted at specific roadmap goals. This post covers the language team’s major initiative: improving the ergonomics of the core language. The aim is to improve... (more…)

In the last post, I introduced the idea of linear hashing. This post will describe a Rust implementation of the algorithm. I won’t go through every last line of code, but hopefully enough to give you a good understanding of how the whole thing works. I sh... (more…)

written by Pyfisch on 2017-03-20 ... (more…)