One of the signature features of webpack is its use of the “dependency graph” to manage and bundle assets. However, each resource that is loaded into webpack must be treated as JavaScript. Until now. (more…)

Last month, Thorsten Ball released his first book: Writing An Interpreter In Go. It’s an awesome book that teaches its readers how to write …...

You might have seen those obnoxious “you should rewrite it in Rust comments” here and there: in a blogpost in a Github issue you might have heard about that Rust Evangelism Strike Force… (more…)

We build a lot of code at Mozilla. Every time someone pushes changes to the code that makes up Firefox we build the application on multiple platforms in a variety of build configurations. This means that we’re constantly looking for ways to make the bui...

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…)