Essays, experiments, and field notes from building software.
Introduction Link to heading My journey at Wasmer has been a profound chapter in my life, filled with both incredible achievements and challenging moments. It’s time for me to share an important …
When developing locally, you can add a private GitHub repository to your Rust crate as a git dependency and cargo should be able to retrieve it just fine. However, when you push your changes to GitHub …
While at Hammer of the Gods, we wrote a lot of Rust code that gets compiled to WebAssembly for use in our containerization technology, Rune. We have over 30 different processing blocks (chunks of code …
Way back in mid-2017 I created a crate called include_dir with a single goal in mind - give users an include_dir!() macro that lets them embed an entire directory in their binary. By most metrics, …
When you are coming to Rust from another language you bring all your previous experiences with you. Often this is awesome because it means you aren’t learning programming from scratch! However, you …
Iterators are part of Rust’s secret sauce. They power things from the humble for-loop to the elegant iterator chain, but have you ever stopped to think how they work? Let’s find out more about Rust’s …
Rust 1.26 introduced a nifty little feature called Basic Slice Patterns which lets you pattern match on slices with a known length. Later on in Rust 1.42 , this was extended to allow using .. to match …
The other day, someone on the Rust user forums posted a question that really nerd-sniped me. They had data generated by a C++ program and were wanting to load it into a Rust program, but when asked …
In my spare time I’m a volunteer with my state’s emergency services and we have our own web app for managing unit-specific things like attendance, vehicle checks, newsletters, on-call rosters, and so …
A while ago someone posted a question on the Rust User Forums asking how to achieve polymorphism in a C API and while lots of good suggestions were made, I’d like to explore my take on things. As a …