Currently it is not possible to instruct cargo, the Rust package manager, to build only the dependencies of the software you are compiling! This means you can't easily pre-install build dependencies. Luckily you can workaround this with cargo build -p! I'... (more…)

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test Seems like no one has implemented this classical old problem in Rust. I would have no idea on how to do it, but maybe someone else do? (more…)

In this article we’ll dissect the implementation of std::io::Error type from the Rust’s standard library.The code in question is here:library/std... (more…)

I've been wanting to write a big project in Rust for a while as a learning exercise, and actually started one in late 2018 (a FUSE server implementation). But then life happened and I got busy and never went anywhere with it. Due to certain world circumst... (more…)

Many years ago, Peter Norvig wrote a beautiful article about creating a lisp interpreter in Python. It’s the most fun tutorial I’ve seen, not just because it teaches you about my favorite language ... (more…)