As part of the Ergonomics Initiative, I and several others on the Rust language team have been taking a hard look at Rust’s module system. There are two related perspectives for improvement here: learnability and productivity. Modules are not a place th... (more…)

I recently published a story about bitflyer, a simple game for the BBC micro:bit. (more…)

Previously I wrote a small post (now unpublished, it was quite boring) about finding the smallest possible opening for introducing Rust into production use.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…)

mononoke - A Mercurial source control server, specifically designed to support large monorepos. (more…)

The Rust team is happy to announce the latest version of Rust, 1.13.0. Rust is a systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency.