Static variables are available throughout the entire life of a program. They are allocated in a block of memory known at compile time. Due to that, they tend to represent global state that the program can access. It's getting especially tricky if one stat...

Coming to Rust from C++ and learning about lifetimes is very similar to coming to C++ from Java and learning about pointers. At first, it looks like an unnecessary concept, something a compiler… (more…)

stdweb - A standard library for the client-side Web... (more…)

As part of RFC 1728, each year the Rust community puts together a roadmap laying out a vision for improvements to Rust over the course of the year. The 2017 roadmap was decided in RFC 1774.

With futures-rs and tokio the Rust ecosystem recently got a whole new chapter in the async IO story. It would be pretty great for diesel to work with this as well. From an enduser standpoint, a str... (more…)