Previously I wrote a small post (now unpublished, it was quite boring) about finding the smallest possible opening for introducing Rust into production use. In that case, Rust's place was quite minor; just the small script-like snippet for updating the in... (more…)

I recently saw several posts from ESR discussing his attempts to learn Rust, for use in rewriting NTPsec: “Rust vs. Go” and “Rust severely disappoints me”, as well as “Rust and the limits of swarm design”. These posts gave me the incentive to...

There are many skills you need to acquire as a programmer, and some of them are not part of the standard software engineering curriculum. Instead you're expected to learn them by osmosis, or by working with someone more experienced. David MacIver covers o...

how to write a command line tool using the rust programming language. (more…)

This is totally unscientific and pretty useless. In real world, business logic will dominate on performance side in any case. (more…)