I have been working on a little rust project lately (more on that some time later). For this I have been using Emacs with rust-mode, flycheck-rust, racer-mode and cargo-mode (see my config). This setup already works quite nicely with all the nice IDE-like... (more…)

There seems to be a widespread belief among Rust programmers that bypassing the borrow checker does not completely compromise type safety. This article attempts to show the converse, that lifetime checks are absolutely essential for type safety, even if ... (more…)

Welcome to “The Rust Programming Language,” an introductory book about Rust. Rust is a programming language that’s focused on safety, speed, and concurrency. Its design lets you create programs that have the performance and control of a low-level language... (more…)

In this article I’m gonna show how to extend C code with a function written in Rust. For the sake of simplicity, let’s do it by writing a simple “hello world!”. (more…)

I was developing safe wrappers for Ceph recently and I wanted to put them into use.I wrote some code that talked directly to Rados ( Ceph’s object store ) to...