Welcome to the second edition of 24 Days of Rust! Two years ago in December 2014 the first edition was pretty well received by the Rust community. That was a hard time - we were still before the 1.0 release of the language. I had to keep up with updating...

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Rust’s second birthday is a little less than two weeks away (May 15th, 2017), so it’s time for us to reflect on our progress over the past year, and how we should plan for the future. The Rust Community Team is pleased to announce our 2017 State of Rust S... (more…)

Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptog... (more…)

It’s strange to see the media turn its attention to places like my hometown in coal-country Pennsylvania and find that my experience there, as part of the non-white working class, is still invisible.