The Rust community has been hard at work on our 2017 roadmap, but as we come up on the final quarter of the year, we’re going to kick it into high gear—and we want you to join us! (more…)

So the week after next I start the Winter 1 2017 half-batch of the Recurse Center. My primary project will be learning rust and systems programming. My secondary project will be some SQL modeling and reporting stuff. (more…)

If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to note a major milestone for Mozilla, when we shipped Rust...

It is common to see the statement that “Rust cannot abstract over mutability”. Indeed, many functions in the standard library have an immutable and a mutable variant, e.g. RefCell::borrow() and RefCell::borrow_mut(). However, in some cases, such as...

The container ecosystem is growing up. Proprietary implementations are gradually being replaced by open standards. One of the most important standards from the open container initiative is the oci-runtime spec, which allows alternative container runtimes ... (more…)