Learn how to compile Rust for the WiFi Pineapple and similar OpenWrt platforms.

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…)

Contribute to KillingSpark/rustysd development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

In March 2015 I started a small pilot project to ship some Rust code in the Firefox web browser. It was the first Rust code to ship in… (more…)

It is common to see the statement that “Rust cannot abstract over mutability”. Indeed, many functions in the standard library have an immutable and a mutable variant, e.g. RefCell::borrow() and RefCell::borrow_mut(). However, in some cases, such as...