Compiling Rust to WebAssembly is still difficult. On macOS, there are weird bugs that require reinstalling LLVM and moving files around. On Linux, the official Emscripten binary in many cases isn’t bundled with the right LLVM, and the fix is to compile fr... (more…)

If you have a background in Python, Java or C++, you're probably used to raising exceptions if something goes wrong. Rust doesn't have exceptions. The official Rust book has a comprehensive chapter on error handling, but the TL;DR is we should probably us...

prost - PROST! a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language... (more…)

Recently I have had the great fortune to work on this ticket . This was an issue that stemmed from an attempt to make clock performance faster. Previously, a call to time or clock_gettime would involve a context switch an a system call (think solaris etc)... (more…)

After the post by Steve Klabnik, “Rust is more than safety”, and a reply by Graydon Hoare, “Rust is mostly safety” - I thought it wise to throw my opinion into the mix, whether warranted or not. This is going to be a long article, which I hope rai...