Currently it is not possible to instruct cargo, the Rust package manager, to build only the dependencies of the software you are compiling! This means you can't easily pre-install build dependencies. Luckily you can workaround this with cargo build -p! I'... (more…)

I used to think that macros were just a feature that a language included or lacked. In practice, there’s a huge design space of how macro systems can be implemented. (more…)

rust-crowbar - Wrapper to simplify writing AWS Lambda functions in Rust (using the Python execution environment)...

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One of Rust’s major goals this year is to provide mentoring at all levels of the project. This is a goal I’m very on-board with. There’s lots of ways to get involved with Rust, but I’d like to talk about the bit I’m most involved in:... | Steve Klabnik | ... (more…)