Several months ago, on May 1st, I spoke to Stjepan Glavina about his (at the time) new crate, smol. Stjepan is, or ought to be, a pretty well-known figure in... (more…)

The core repository of implementing 'startup' database project - alex-dukhno/database... (more…)

I started working on libblkio in 2020 with the goal of creating a high-performance block I/O library. The internals are written in Rust whi... (more…)

To help bring our 2017 vision for Rust to fruition, the Rust subteams are launching initiatives targeted at specific roadmap goals. This post covers the language team’s major initiative: improving the ergonomics of the core language. The aim is to improve... (more…)

A 2014 report pegged the cost for Navy ships at $3 billion, a quarter of their overall maintenance expenses. (more…)