Last week, Ibrahim Dursun published an article about zero-cost abstractions in Rust. Unfortunately, except for a subpart of the article, this article did not reflect, in my own opinion, correctly what are zero-cost abstractions. (more…)

The Tokio team is excited to announce the release of Tokio 0.3. This release functions as a Tokio 1.0 beta. API rough edges have been fixed. This release is an opportunity to validate the changes before stabilizing them as part of the 1.0 release. As most... (more…)

I last wrote in October about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. With the year’s end approaching, it’s time for an update. (more…)

For whatever reason "linear" types in Rust came up at work today, at which point I made my usual assertion that they're a nightmare, because they don't compose well. I tried to explain it off the top of my head, but I figured it's best for me to just writ... (more…)

My engineering diploma involved some digital signal processing (DSP), in particular sound generation and recognition. Throughout my studies I went through a ton of audio files, usually using C++ to process them. I've written a custom .wav file loader, of ...