Go is regularly criticized for odd decisions and idiosyncrasies, while Rust is celebrated as an almost perfectly designed alternative that solves Go's problems. But in fact, Go and Rust are far from interchangeable. (more…)

When you are coming to Rust from another language you bring all your previous experiences with you. Often this is awesome because it means you aren’t learning programming from scratch! However, you can also bring along bad habits which can lead you down t... (more…)

The latest Stack Overflow survey confirms what we already knew here at Mozilla: Rust is the most loved language for developers with 73% of… (more…)

Previously I wrote a small post (now unpublished, it was quite boring) about finding the smallest possible opening for introducing Rust into production use. In that case, Rust's place was quite minor; just the small script-like snippet for updating the in... (more…)

Lately I've been seeing lots of anecdotes from people trying to get into Rust who get really hung up on strings (&str, String, and their relationship). Beyond Rust's usual challenges around ownership, there can be an added layer of frustration because... (more…)