Transposing other language paradigms to Rust often reveals unforeseen issues. Here are some limitations of Rust and how to work around them. (more…)

This RFC proposes the 2017 Rust Roadmap, in accordance with RFC 1728. The goal of the roadmap is to lay out a vision for where the Rust project should be in a year's time. This year's focus is improving Rust's productivity, while retaining its emphasis on...

While this post's title is a mash-up of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with Dijkstra's 1968 letter, " Go To Statement Considered Harmful...

Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptog... (more…)

In this article I will further analyze how a Plugin Development Kit (PDK) could be implemented in Rust. Note that I’m no expert in the topic; my objective is to merely collect all the information I’ve found so far and present it as a summary, with enough ... (more…)