Compiling Rust to WebAssembly is still difficult. On macOS, there are weird bugs that require reinstalling LLVM and moving files around. On Linux, the official Emscripten binary in many cases isn’t bundled with the right LLVM, and the fix is to compile fr... (more…)

System programming in Rust: beyond safety Balasubramanian et al., HotOS’17 Balasubramanian et al. want us to switch all of our systems programming over to Rust. This paper sets out the case. … (more…)

I last wrote in April about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update. (more…)

Today, we’re announcing the first alpha release of the Rust Language Server (aka RLS). With this alpha release, this is the first time we’re encouraging early adopters to try on real projects and send us feedback. The RLS has now reached a level of ...

A few months ago I started learning Rust, and in the process I ended up contributing to an open source project for the first time. It turned out to be a great vehicle for learning Rust, so in this post I’d like to go over what I did and why... (more…)