Welcome to my collection of resources for those learning the Rust programming language. The advice in these pages is typically suitable for those with at least a beginning familiarity of Rust -- for example, those who have worked through The Book -- but ... (more…)

In the previous post I showed how to use asynchronous Rust to measure throughput and response times of a Cassandra cluster. That approach works pretty well o... (more…)

This PR replaces the sort implementations with tailor-made ones that strike a balance of run-time, compile-time and binary-size, yielding run-time and compile-time improvements. Regressing binary-s... (more…)

One of my current hobby projects involves running Rust binaries on a Raspberry Pi. There are three computers involved: the Pi itself (ARMv7 Linux), my desktop (x86-64 Linux), and sometimes my laptop (x86-64 macOS). (more…)

Rust is not so easy to learn, but Microsoft engineers really like the programming language for systems-level coding. (more…)