Introducing cbindgen, a project for generating a C/C++ header for a Rust library. See also the popular bindgen project which works in the opposite direction. cbindgen will parse a single source or a whole library (including dependent crates) and gather al... (more…)

We write a lot of C++ here at OkCupid. It's pretty great, except when it's really not. I've been evaluating Rust as another potential language for our Backend Team. It seems to fit in quite nicely with a lot of our existing code base and I like a lot of... (more…)

It is common to see the statement that “Rust cannot abstract over mutability”. Indeed, many functions in the standard library have an immutable and a mutable variant, e.g. RefCell::borrow() and RefCell::borrow_mut(). However, in some cases, such as...

In the last post, I introduced the idea of linear hashing. This post will describe a Rust implementation of the algorithm. I won’t go through every last line of code, but hopefully enough to give you a good understanding of how the whole thing works. I sh... (more…)

API documentation for the Rust `e021` mod in crate `show_notes`. (more…)