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…)

You might have seen those obnoxious “you should rewrite it in Rust comments” here and there: in a blogpost in a Github issue you might have heard about that Rust Evangelism Strike Force… (more…)

Today we're going to take a brief look at two crates from the same author - Andy Barron. The first of them is app_dirs - a useful library to find platform-dependent directories, such as application configuration, data directory or cache. The second crate ...

In this post we explore double faults in detail. We also set up an Interrupt Stack Table to catch double faults on a separate kernel stack. This way, we can completely prevent triple faults, even on kernel stack overflow.

Edit: This list is now maintained in the rust-anthology repo. (more…)