Lifetime annotations are one of the things that distract the most new rustaceans. I believe they are a pure evil waste of time. Let’s be honest, lifetime (annotations) are ugly and induce a cognitive load that distracts from getting the actual things done... (more…)

Arrays in Rust are fixed size, and Rust requires that every element in an array is initialized to a valid value when the array is initialized. The result of these requirements is array initialization in Rust is a much deeper topic than it would seem. (more…)

Today our focus is the derive_builder crate. It provides a macro to automatically generate setter methods for struct fields. And since all setters return the struct itself, we can chain them in a so called builder pattern.

The decision to rewrite a project from scratch is exceptionally high-stakes and making the wrong choice can end your career and/or company. (more…)

The Rust for Linux project is working on adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel with the hope that using Rust will make new code more safe, easier to refactor and review, and easier to write. (See the RFC for more detail about goals and ... (more…)