Rust has had a lot of stuff going on with “macros”. There are a few, interconnected aspects of these features, many different names for the same thing, and a lot of development work going on. This post will give an overview of the past, present,... | ...

Summary: Computers weren't designed to have outside concepts, such as units of length, expressed in their function. Because of this Rust, being a systems language, also has no concept of it. But just because the computer runtime has no concept of length o... (more…)

In this blog post, I want to introduce the personal note taking app that I wrote for myself. I want to highlight the use-case that I'm looking to solve, as well as the challenges that I ran into with the tech stack and how I solved them. (more…)

In Part 11, we spent some time clarifying mechanisms we had previously glossed over: how variables and functions from other ELF objects were accessed at runtime. We saw that doing so “proper” required the cooperation of the compiler, the assembler, the li... (more…)

Rust’s development in 2017 fit into a single overarching theme: increasing productivity, especially for newcomers to Rust. From tooling to libraries to documentation to the core language, we wanted to make it easier to get things done with Rust. That desi... (more…)