Rust is a systems programming language focused onspeed and safe concurrency, and which I’ve been using for personal projectsheavily since the 1.0 release las...

Diesel is a framework for Object Relational Mapping and Query Building. It’s goal is to get rid of alot of boilerplate code usually needed for interacting with a database. It should feel like Rust, so that the developer does not need to write SQL and inst... (more…)

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I recently saw several posts from ESR discussing his attempts to learn Rust, for use in rewriting NTPsec: “Rust vs. Go” and “Rust severely disappoints me”, as well as “Rust and the limits of swarm design”. These posts gave me the incentive to...

In March 2015 I started a small pilot project to ship some Rust code in the Firefox web browser. It was the first Rust code to ship in… (more…)