Rustc_codegen_cranelift (cg_clif) is an alternative backend for rustc that I have been working on for the past two years. It uses the Cranelift code generator. Unlike LLVM which is optimized for output quality at the cost of compilation speed even when op... (more…)

A button that responds to our tapping and increments a counter… That’s what we shall accomplish today on the PineTime Smart Watch… (more…)

⊕ This post is the first part in a planned series on linking Rust crates. My desire is to get informal feedback on these posts, and then turn … (more…)

a popular trend in the Rust community is to ask "Are We X Yet" for various things that it would be nice to be able to develop easily in Rust - game and web are the most prominent ones as far as i can tell - and one such question is Are We GUI Yet. that's ... (more…)

Today I went to a Rust meetup. I had some ideas of what I might work on, but I’ve started to try and be more open to random nerdsnipes and discussions at these things. Here’s something I was thinking about and a little experiment that was an equally littl... (more…)