Patrick Walton proposed the idea of a "left-pad index": I went ahead and crunched the numbers for crates.io, surveying the top 500 crates by recent downloads, dividing that number by the crate size, and coming up with the following results: Per Pa... (more…)

Back in 2014 I was fetching frontpages of the top million websites to scan them for a particular vulnerability. Not only have I found… (more…)

We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with com... (more…)

Plugin is now officially supported by JetBrains :tada:. (more…)

A new Kind A Sort long Prophesized Once Fragile, now Eternal Stabilization report This is the stabilization report for #![feature(min_const_generics)] (tracking issue #74878), a subset of #![featur... (more…)