A bit over a year ago, I wrote some notes on a “smaller Rust” - a higher level language that would take inspiration from some of Rust’s type system innovations, but would be simpler by virtue of targeting a domain with less stringent requirements for user... (more…)

I think Rust is officially comfy as a language for backend and/or web service development, but upcoming uncomfyness looms ever-present. (more…)

A pure Rust visualization library inspired by D3.js - askanium/rustplotlib... (more…)

Web Assembly (WASM) and Rust have been growing and evolving over the last couple of years, so what’s it like to use them together? (more…)

About a month ago I ported my C99 ray tracer side project to Rust. The initial port went smoothly, and I’ve now been plugging away adding features and repeatedly rewriting it in my spare hours. In parallel I’m getting up to speed on a large, production Ru... (more…)