Why I left Rust

May 28, 2023 - 1224 words - 7 mins

There's a lot of speculation about why I left Rust yesterday, so I want to set the record straight in this post. What happened A short timeline of what happened from my perspective, as this is relevant for later: A request went out to the interim leadership group for potential keynote speakers for … read more

Retiring

March 03, 2021 - 487 words - 3 mins

Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft. I've been fortunate to have worked in an industry that paid well over my 20+ year career and to have grown up with frugal parents who passed that on to me. Starting the 4th of March, I'll be retiring to work on open source and teaching. So what's next? I have … read more

Intermediate Rust series

February 12, 2021 - 452 words - 3 mins

Hi all! A few days ago I posted on Twitter asking for topics that people wanted to see covered for intermediate Rust content. The response was awesome and it's inspired me to make a series where I go through each topic and do my best to cover it as a video and/or blog post. Here's the current list o… read more

Creating crossplatform Rust terminal apps

April 27, 2019 - 896 words - 5 mins

Look Mom, Pikachu running in Windows CMD! I've been wanting to play around with the cool spinning Pikachu demo everyone was talking about. Sadly, it used termion to do its magic, which meant that unfortunately it wouldn't work for me. Termion has been a boon for Rust, with lots of folks using it to… read more

The Fallow Year, my Rust2019 post

December 08, 2018 - 776 words - 4 mins

Definition: fallow: (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season. Rust is an amazing project. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. Not only are we seeing an ever-growing number of big name users of Rust, we also continue to see leaps in productivity and functio… read more

A Snapshot of Rust's Popularity in July 2018

July 28, 2018 - 1513 words - 8 mins

Talking about a language's popularity is traditionally a tricky topic. How do you measure popularity? How do you compare one language to another when they're focused on different styles and different audiences? So, rather than having one or two charts, I'm going to look at a number of "slices&… read more

How fast can we compile Rust hello world?

May 03, 2018 - 2738 words - 14 mins

Seeing Nick Nethercote's blog post about speeding up the compiler, I started wondering just how fast could a Rust compiler be? How fast could we compile a simple example? How fast can we compile a Rust hello world? Starting out When you do a cargo new hello_rust --bin, you get a simple Rust hello … read more

Talking about how we talk about Rust in 2018

January 10, 2018 - 1046 words - 6 mins

This is an entry in the #rust2018 blogging efforts to talk about Rust in 2018 When you come to Rust, you're bound to hear a lot of phrases. "Wrestling with the compiler". "Rust evangelism task force". "Non-lexical lifetimes". "Systems programming". Some seem… read more

Improving how we improve Rust in 2018

January 07, 2018 - 882 words - 5 mins

Here's my #rust2018 post to add to the batch. The past few years, I've been lucky to be part of the Rust community survey process. In 2016, this data helped show the need to improve usability. We had good foundations, but they were too hard to get at. In 2017, we saw a renewed need to reach out t… read more

Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

October 30, 2017 - 2378 words - 12 mins

There are now 100 friends of Rust (Be sure to hover to learn about how each company uses Rust) There are now 3 Rust podcasts: New Rustacean, Rusty Spike, and Request for Explanation First year had one conference, the second year had three, and this year had four. crates.io is not even 3 year… read more

RLS now available on nightly

April 18, 2017 - 347 words - 2 mins

We've got some good news for Rust IDE support. We recently hit a milestone for the Rust Language Server, a tool that combines the power of the compiler with a fast autocompletion engine. Up to this point, if you wanted to use it you had to build it from scratch. The process was tedious, time-consu… read more

Using Rust in Windows

March 28, 2017 - 1071 words - 6 mins

As a Rust user, I was discouraged by not having all the good tips for using Rust in Windows in one place. This is an attempt to just that. If you have more tips tweet them to @jntrnr, and I'll try to add them here. Getting started Step 1: Install Visual Studio Community edition My recommendation f… read more

Rust Language Server Alpha 2 Release

March 02, 2017 - 544 words - 3 mins

Today, we're happy to announce the second alpha for the Rust Language Server, a project build to bring high-quality Rust IDE support to any IDE or editor. This release brings new features, better stability, and an easier installation than the first alpha. Support for new project types When a projec… read more

Announcing Rust Language Server Alpha Release

January 18, 2017 - 1020 words - 6 mins

Today, we're announcing the first alpha release of the Rust Language Server (aka RLS). With this alpha release, this is the first time we're encouraging early adopters to try on real projects and send us feedback. The RLS has now reached a level of maturity where it should be able to run against m… read more

Helping with the Rust Errors

August 03, 2016 - 2772 words - 14 mins

I recently did some work with Niko Matsakis on a new compiler error format. You can try them out by setting RUST_NEW_ERROR_FORMAT=true. While I put together a blog post talking about the design for the main blog, I also wanted to open it up for people to come help us move to the new errors. I've spl… read more

Rhai 0.2 release

March 26, 2016 - 327 words - 2 mins

I've just updated Rhai to 0.2. This release focuses on improving the interaction between Rhai and Rust. The result is a cleaner, easier-to-use API. This new API does mean some API breakages, so you'll need to update your code to work with 0.2. With this release, Rhai also now has arrays as a buil… read more

Embedded scripting in Rust

March 14, 2016 - 1909 words - 10 mins

For the last few weeks, I've been working on an embedded scripting language for Rust, based loosely on ChaiScript called Rhai. What's an embedded scripting language? While the definition might depend on who you ask, for this post embedded scripting has a few distinct features: A language that de… read more

Going down the rabbit hole with Rust traits

February 09, 2016 - 1416 words - 8 mins

One of the first things you might notice about Rust, if you come to it from other OOP-style languages, is that Rust separates methods from the data they work on. You create your struct, then you impl a few methods on it later. struct Rect { height: i32, width: i32 } impl Rect { fn are… read more

Rust quickie - matching Strings

February 08, 2016 - 220 words - 2 mins

In case you find yourself trying to match a String (perhaps as part of an Option or Result), here's a little trick. As a concrete example, let's say you're working with commandline args and want to do different things if it's there and equal to a special value (like "-"), if it's any other… read more

Rust and the Blub Paradox

January 22, 2016 - 2985 words - 15 mins

A few weeks ago, I read an analysis of Rust, D, and Go by Andrei Alexandrescu. Andrei, a respected member of the C++ community and a core developer of the D programming language, took a stab at Rust at the end of his writeup with what seems like a pretty astute observation: "Reading any amount… read more

Building a simple JIT in Rust

December 01, 2015 - 1420 words - 8 mins

The other day I threw together a simple Just-In-Time compiler (or JIT, for short), and I thought it'd be fun to show the steps I did. With this, it should be possible to create a page of executable memory, write some machine code into it, and then treat it like a function call from Rust. Let's get … read more

Porting a C# NES emulator to Rust

November 20, 2015 - 1817 words - 10 mins

Many years ago, I created a simple NES emulator in C# using SDL and Mono. For fun, I wanted to see what it would be like to port that emulator to Rust. A couple weeks later, after poking on it on and off between packing for a move, I was able to get it working. What I did Loading a binary file Lo… read more

Learning to 'try!' things in Rust

November 04, 2015 - 1219 words - 7 mins

I started learning Rust in earnest a few weeks ago. Coming from C++, a fair share of the idioms felt right at home. There was clear memory management and an eye towards lightweight abstractions. But when I started looking around for how to do exceptions, I was surprised to find that Rust had none.… read more

Lessons from the first 12 Euler problems in Rust

October 09, 2015 - 4969 words - 25 mins

!! Spoiler Alert !! I'm going to be talking about solutions to select problems from the first 12 Euler problems. If you haven't solved these for yourself yet, I highly recommend taking the time to solve them on your own first. Background Before I went to Microsoft for a stint in JavaScript, I did m… read more

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