Essays, experiments, and field notes from building software.
One of the primary reasons computers are so ubiquitous in modern society is their ability to let humans and software cooperate to achieve a desired goal. That is, to be interactive. Creating …
There’s a well-known saying about the hard problems in computer science, of which I think this is my favourite variant, There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming …
It’s been about 6 months since I watched Catherine West’s excellent Using Rust for Game Development sent me down the Entity-Component-System (ECS) rabbit hole, and I thought I’d share some of my …
In a project I’ve been playing around with recently, we’ve encountered the dilemma where you want to make it easy for users to write their own application logic using the system but at the same time …
In a previous article we’ve talked about how you can avoid rewriting a library in Rust when you don’t need to. But what about the times when you really do need to? In most languages you’d need to …
If you’ve ever done much embedded programming in Rust, you’ve most probably run across the arrayvec crate before. It’s awesome. The main purpose of the crate is to provide the ArrayVec type, which is …
In my spare time I’m an emergency services volunteer, and one of the tasks our unit has is to run the radio network and keep track of what’s happening. This can be a pretty stressful job, especially …
Once you get past the growing pains of the Borrow Checker and realise Rust gives you the power to do things which would be unheard of (or just plain dangerous) in other languages, the temptation to …
As mentioned in the previous post there are a handful of tasks which may be tackled next, but only one of them really allows us to make progress towards our goal of implementing the simulated firmware …
As we mentioned in the last AiMC post , the next task is to wire up communications between the simulator’s backend and frontend. As a general rule, our frontend will have two communication regimes: …