Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust – tantivy-search/tantivy…

The other day, someone on the Rust user forums posted a question that really nerd-sniped me. They had data generated by a C++ program and were wanting to load it into a Rust program, but when asked what format the data was in the author didn’t provide som…

Momentum grows behind the push to make Rust a second language for the development of the Linux kernel and drivers.

Rust is an exciting language. I recently bought The Rust Programming Language Book. It’s quite dense with a lot of concepts I haven’t thought about since college. Working in high-level programming languages such as Java, Python, and TypeScript have allowe…

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, …

The Free Software Foundation publishes the Free Software Definition.

ISRG’s Prossimo project for memory safety aims to coordinate efforts to move the Internet’s critical software infrastructure to memory safe code. When we think about what code is most critical for today’s Internet, the Linux kernel is at the top of the li…

Last year, as an occasional contributor to the Rust project, I did not think much about the organisational structure of the team behind the project. I saw a hierarchy of teams and groups, team leaders, etc. Just like any other organisation. This year, aft…

During an ongoing argument in a chatroom between some folks about how “zomg systemd is ruining everything”, I decided to look at some init system history. I learned a cool tidbit of information from a HN comment1: apparently systemd’s design was inspired …