A few months ago I started learning Rust, and in the process I ended up contributing to an open source project for the first time. It turned out to be a great vehicle for learning Rust, so in this post I’d like to go over what I did and why... (more…)

Years ago, Andrew Kennedy published a foundational paper about a type checker for units of measure, and later implemented it for F#. To this day, F# is the only mainstream programming language which provides first class support to make sure that you will ... (more…)

In this stream, we started implementing the ubiquitous TCP protocol that underlies much of the traffic on the internet! In particular, we followed RFC 793 — ... (more…)

Rust is becoming a first class language in a variety of domains. At Discord, we’ve seen success with Rust on the client side and server… (more…)

Below is a graphical depiction of moving, copying, and borrowing in the Rust language. Most of these concepts are fairly specific to Rust and are therefore a common stumbling block for many learners. (more…)