Rust's design has taken inspiration from a lot of previous work. One of Rust's influences is functional programming, where functions are values that can be used as arguments or return values to other functions, assigned to variables, and so forth. We're g... (more…)

In this guide we're going to look at what exactly infer_schema!, infer_table_from_schema!, and table! do. For table!, we will show a simplified version of the actual code that gets generated, and explain how each piece is relevant to you. If you've ever b... (more…)

Goal: Replace Gecko’s XML parser, libexpat, with a Rust-based XML parser Firefox currently uses an old, trimmed down, and slightly modified version of libexpat, a library written in C, to sup… (more…)

I have been looking for an excuse to learn Rust for some time now. Although I had read several tutorials and ran through the Exercism.io problems, I am incapable of learning anything new unless I actually get a chance to build something with it. But I did... (more…)

Rust’s central feature is ownership. Although the feature is straightforward to explain, it has deep implications for the rest of the language. (more…)