My last post was wrong in the details, so let me show a better example. Rust code : pub extern fn foo(v: &u64, callback: fn()) -> u64 { l... (more…)

Proptest is a property testing framework (i.e., the QuickCheck family) inspired by the Hypothesis framework for Python. It allows to test that certain properties of your code hold for arbitrary inputs, and if a failure is found, automatically finds the mi... (more…)

E. Dunham http://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/15/ Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees ...

Steve Klabnik and Florian Leibert discuss how the powerful and easy-to-use Rust language became the next-gen infrastructure tool of choice. (more…)

Yesterday the Pull Request 46115: "rustbuild: Enable WebAssembly backend by default" was merged into Rust master. With the Nightly build from that night, the wasm32-unknown-unknown target is natively available. (more…)