Edited at 2020-01-06 Remove the linker script section since I found its unnecessary to customize linker Refactor the main function interface AFAIK, the most popular contracts that deployed on CKB is writing in C. There are 3 default contracts in the g... (more…)

Diesel is a framework for Object Relational Mapping and Query Building. It’s goal is to get rid of alot of boilerplate code usually needed for interacting with a database. It should feel like Rust, so that the developer does not need to write SQL and inst... (more…)

I have received (a lot of) requests about writing a guide on how to write documentation in Rust lately. I'm quite happy that people finally gets interested into this area so let's not let it rest and let's go! (more…)

Patrick Walton proposed the idea of a "left-pad index": I went ahead and crunched the numbers for crates.io, surveying the top 500 crates by recent downloads, dividing that number by the crate size, and coming up with the following results: Per Pa... (more…)

Imagine you are implementing a calculator application and want users to be able to extend the application with their own functionality. For example, imagine a user wants to provide a random() function that generates true random numbers using random.org in... (more…)