It turns out that finite state machines are useful for things other than expressing computation. Finite state machines can also be used to compactly represent ordered sets or maps of strings that can be searched very quickly. (more…)

Rust Belt Rust (http://www.rust-belt-rust.com/) is a conference about the Rust programming language held in the Rust Belt region of the US. In 2016, it was h...

Let me start this article with a confession: I suck at writing parallel code. I have only a vague idea about mutexes, locks and other low level primitives for handling data between threads. And since I work mostly with Python, I tend to use multiprocessin...

Recently, Ralf Jung found a bug in Rust's standard library. Congrats to him! 🎉... (more…)

Nushell, or Nu for short, is a new shell that takes a modern, structured approach to your commandline. It works seamlessly with the data from your filesystem, operating system, and a growing number of file formats to make it easy to build powerful command... (more…)