As both Tock and the Rust ecosystem grow, we have been looking into using community-provided crates on crates.io to allow us to add features to Tock. For example, we are exploring using the hmac crate to support one of the networking protocols we are addi... (more…)

While this post's title is a mash-up of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with Dijkstra's 1968 letter, " Go To Statement Considered Harmful...

As a Rust user, I was discouraged by not having all the good tips for using Rust in Windows in one place. This is an attempt to just that. If you have more tips tweet them to @jntrnr, and I’ll try to add them here. (more…)

With a beta of csv 1.0 just released, the time is ripe for a tutorial on how to read and write CSV data in Rust. This tutorial is targeted toward beginning Rust programmers, and is therefore full of examples and spends some time on basic concepts. Experie... (more…)

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