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…)

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…)

A number of programming languages offer a feature called “Named Arguments” or “Labeled Arguments”, which makes some function calls much more readable and safer. Let’s see how hard it would be to add these ... (more…)

So I started playing around with the Iron web framework because writing Rust is awesome, and I wanted to write a wiki. This comes from the perspective of someone who’s done a bit of of backend web development in Django and Flask but really isn’t part ...

In this series we’ll create a simulation of evolution using neural network & genetic algorithm. (more…)