About a month ago I ported my C99 ray tracer side project to Rust. The initial port went smoothly, and I’ve now been plugging away adding features and repeatedly rewriting it in my spare hours. In parallel I’m getting up to speed on a large, production Ru... (more…)

Rust programs vs C++ g++ programs (performance on 64-bit Ubuntu quad core). (more…)

Join us at the next Rust monthly meetup - https://www.meetup.com/rust-akl Web Assembly (WASM) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machin... (more…)

An unexpected errorA friend was experimenting with Rust and asked if I could help decipher an error message for them:PS Z:\Projects\aoc\src\bin> cargo build --bin=2021_day19... (more…)

Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand ownership types, Rust's core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our attempt to systematically design a pedagogy for ownership types. First, we studied Rust... (more…)