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September 18, 2023In my previous post, I described the idea of using an edition mechanism to introduce a new auto trait. I wrote that the compiler would need to create an “unbreakable firewall” to prevent using !Leak types from the new edit...
May 27, 2023One of the most famous anecdotes that forms the basis of the United States’ political self-identity is the story of an interaction between Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth Willing Powel after the Constitutional Convention of 1787...
I have been devoting a lot of my free time in the past month to thinking about structured concurrency, and a blog post about that is coming soon, but first I want to revisit iterators and generators.In a previous post, I wrote about one of...
This is the first post in a series of posts about concurrency in Rust, and the different APIs that can exist to support it. Unlike my recent series on control-flow effects, this series isn’t driving toward any particular vision of what I th...
March 26, 2023One of the main emphases of my recent posts has been that I believe shipping generators would solve a lot of user problems by making it easy to write imperative iterative code, and especially to make that iterative code intera...
March 22, 2023In a previous post, I established the notion of “registers” - code in Rust can be written in different registers, and it’s important to adequately support all registers. I specifically discussed the low-level interface of the...
October 1, 2020In the previous post in this series, I wrote about how the core state machine of ringbahn is implemented. In this post I want to talk about another central concept in ringbahn: “drivers”, external libraries which determine ho...
September 30, 2020A bit over a year ago, I wrote some notes on a “smaller Rust” - a higher level language that would take inspiration from some of Rust’s type system innovations, but would be simpler by virtue of targeting a domain with les...
August 6, 2020I’ve just released a new crate called propane, which is a library for writing generator functions. It can only run on nightly:#![feature(generators, generator_trait, try_trait)] #[propane::generator] fn fizz_buzz() -> String {...
Many people who use Rust for a bit - especially those who like the language but do not fall in love with it - feel a sense that there must be a smaller, simpler variation on the same theme which would maybe be a little less powerful, but wo...
July 16, 2020It’s hard to believe that its been more than 3 years since I opened RFC 2000, which defined the const generics for Rust. At the same time, reading the RFC thread, there’s also been a huge amount of change in this area: for one...
July 2, 2020Last time I wrote about ringbahn, a safe API for using io-uring from Rust. I wrote that I would soon write a series of posts about the mechanism that makes ringbahn work. In the first post in that series, I want to look at the c...
While implementing ringbahn, I introduced at least two bugs that caused memory safety errors, resulting in segfaults, allocator aborts, and bizarre undefined behavior. I’ve fixed both bugs that I could find, and now I have no evidence that...
"Rust is like a futuristic laser gun with an almost AI-like foot detector that turns the safety on when it recognises your foot."