Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft are forming new Rust teams, and Google has also been hiring former Mozilla engineers to build with the language. (more…)

Rustc_codegen_cranelift (cg_clif) is an alternative backend for rustc that I have been working on for the past two years. It uses the Cranelift code generator. Unlike LLVM which is optimized for output quality at the cost of compilation speed even when op... (more…)

Coffee plants were supposed to be safe on this side of the Atlantic. But the fungus found them. (more…)

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…)

Sort Unicode strings lexicographically. Contribute to Aloso/lexical-sort development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)