Property-based testing isn’t always the answer, but the very act of considering your code's abstract properties can help you understand it better. (more…)

About a year ago I wrote soa-rs, a structure-of-arrays (SOA) crate for Rust that makes extensive use of procedural macros and unsafe. In this post, I want to reflect on my experience with those tools. Much that I have to say mirrors Chad Austin's recent U... (more…)

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or sen... (more…)

Just before the holiday weekend, Oracle released three new open source container utilities. These include a debugging tool, a microcontainer builder, and most interestingly, an implementation of the Open Container Initiative’s oci-runtime specification kn... (more…)

I rewrote my C++ mobile game in Rust as a hobby project to learn Rust. I’m quite excited with what I learnt and with the resulting game. (more…)