TLDR: I think that the primary benefit of async/await is that it lets us concisely express complex concurrency; any (potential) performance improvements are just a second-order effect. We should thus judge async primarily based on how it simplifies our co... (more…)

Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! (more…)

Have you ever noticed that some of the bounds on Rust’s collection types are weird? This is a very long and old story of a problem from before even 1.0. I will explain this problem, and then try to solve it in a new way. I will fail to do so, but in the p... (more…)

This post is the second part of my adventures to optimize a Rust workload running on multiple threads.In the first post, I explored how the rayon parallelism... (more…)

Steve Klabnik and Florian Leibert discuss how the powerful and easy-to-use Rust language became the next-gen infrastructure tool of choice. (more…)