There is a pretty straightforward design pattern called "out parameters" that you may have heard of before. In short, the question is, does your function wear pants... err, I mean, does your function modify data like this: (more…)

A month ago when I first developed a non-commercial project using ReasonML, I got a new experience, i... (more…)

Second talk for the first Rust Edinburgh meetup, the first Scottish meetup about the Rust programming language. Simon Brand from Codeplay Software Ltd. prese... (more…)

While trying to implement a long planned feature, an ad block in Angelfish, the Plasma Mobile webbrowser, I was looking for a mostly complete and performant library that provides this functionality. (more…)

It was recently discovered that some surprising operations on Rust’s standard hash table types could go quadratic. Perhaps the simplest illustration is this snippet from a comment, here simplified...