Like most programming languages, Rust encourages the programmer to handle errors in a particular way. Generally speaking, error handling is divided into two broad categories: exceptions and return values. Rust opts for return values. (more…)

I've been working on a project with rust that requires creating a pseudo-terminal and like many others, I've run into a lot of problems with the functions available to get a pair of master/slave fds for my PTY. openpty int openpty(int *amaster, int *aslav... (more…)

As a learning exercise I set out to implement a simple lock-free algorithm in Rust. It was inspired by a problem posed at job interviews at a company where a friend works. The problem is simple eno… (more…)

Last Wednesday, Nicholas Matsakis from Rust/Mozilla and I sat down on a video chat to start getting our hands dirty on moving ahead with making Rust a part of the GNOME ecosystem. While there are t…

If you're looking to write fast code in Rust, good news! Rust makes it really easy to write really fast code. The focus on zero-cost abstractions, the lack of implicit boxing and the static memory management means that even naïve code is often faster than... (more…)