We learned the basic concepts of nom yesterday when we wrote a parser for HTTP headers. HTTP is by its nature a text protocol. nom however always works on bytes (byte array slices, denoted in Rust with &[u8]). This makes it perfectly suitable for pars...

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…)

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Steve is concerned that an overfocus on safety might sell Rust short. At its least compelling, safety turns into a PSA for you to "eat your vegetables." And he makes a good point that for people who have only worked with safe languages, it's a bit like se...

unosolo - Work-in-progress Rust application that converts C++ libraries to single self-contained headers. (more…)