Last year was an important year for Async Rust, culminating in the release of async fn in traits, one of Rust’s most long-awaited language features. I’m really proud of the work and expertise the Async Working Group has put in to this effort, and for the ... (more…)

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My engineering diploma involved some digital signal processing (DSP), in particular sound generation and recognition. Throughout my studies I went through a ton of audio files, usually using C++ to process them. I've written a custom .wav file loader, of ...

Not because our hardware is complex, but simply because we’re all humans. Our attention span is limited, our memory is volatile — in other words, we tend to make mistakes. Computers and software are… (more…)

Haskell and Rust both support asynchronous programming. Haskell includes a feature called async exceptions, which allow cancelling threads, but they come at a cost. See how Rust does the same job, and the relative trade-offs of each approach. (more…)