Rust is often critiqued as a not a very productive programming language. It is true that there is a bit of a learning curve to be able to program in Rust; but beyond that, I think it pays off in productivity; and massively I must say. I haven’t... | Abid ... (more…)

Just yesterday, we submitted our paper RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language. Quoting from the abstract: Rust is a new systems programming language that pr... (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…)

This is my response for this year’s call for blog posts.I am writing this as a language implementor, not as a language user.I also don’t try to p... (more…)

Haskell and Rust both support asynchronous programming. Haskell includes a feature called async exceptions, which allow cancelling threads, but they come at a cost. See how Rust does the same job, and the relative trade-offs of each approach. (more…)