Dread it. Run from it. Your programs will be rewritten in Rust all the same!Join our discord:https://discord.gg/t6PuV95H45... (more…)

Goal: Replace Gecko’s XML parser, libexpat, with a Rust-based XML parser Firefox currently uses an old, trimmed down, and slightly modified version of libexpat, a library written in C, to sup… (more…)

In my previous article , I said I needed to stop thinking of Rust generics as Java generics, because in Rust, generic types are erased. Someone gently pointed out that they are... (more…)

Programming languages often defer reliability and security issues to tools and processes. Two initiatives—SPARK and Rust—state that language is key to reaching these objectives. (more…)

There's a question that always comes up when people pick up the Rust programming language: why are there two string types? Why is there String, and &str? My Declarative Memory Management article answers the question partially, but there is a lot more ... (more…)