Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes covers a lot of ground in Rust, and thus this section is somewhat long. It is also hard to create a succinct overview of the topic, as what aspects of the topic a newcomer first encounters depends on what projects they ... (more…)

Often I read that for simple tasks Rust is not a good choice. Go is more adopted when we need to create a small script to automatize our jobs. But is it true? (more…)

Rust is a modern systems programming language focusing on safety, speed, and concurrency. It accomplishes these goals by being memory safe without using garbage collection. (more…)

Rust is really super portable. It supports a lot of platforms. But not enough ... not nearly enough. Rust wants to be everywhere, in wild places that only future generations will be able to imagine. We've got some work yet to enable that future though, an... (more…)

I recently joined the general code review rotation for the Rust compiler, which increased the number of reviews I do. This post describes my experience, and contains some thoughts about reviewing in general. (more…)