Last weekend I was playing around with a way to represent null-terminated UTF8 strings in Rust. Rather than just toying with it forever, I decided ... (more…)

It was recently discovered that some surprising operations on Rust’s standard hash table types could go quadratic. Perhaps the simplest illustration is this snippet from a comment, here simplified...

Today, we released a new version of Pijul. Still alpha, but lots of updates. Also, still GPL2+ (as in version 0.3, but unlike before). (more…)

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test Seems like no one has implemented this classical old problem in Rust. I would have no idea on how to do it, but maybe someone else do? (more…)

In a previous post, I explained why rewriting existing software in Rust could be a good idea. The main point being that you should not rewrite the whole application, but replace the weaker parts wi… (more…)