Featherweight Musings

I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron

Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Rustfmt-ing Rust

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Over on my new blog I have a post on running rustfmt on the Rust repo and how you can help with the process, if you would like to: http:/...
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Monday, June 01, 2015

My Git and GitHub work flow

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Every now and then I get a bunch of questions about my Git workflow. Hopefully, this will be useful, even though there are already a bunch ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

rustfmt - call for contributions

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I've been experimenting with a rustfmt tool for a while now. Its finally in working shape (though still very, very rough) and I'd l...
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Monday, April 13, 2015

Contributing to Rust

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I wrote a few things about contributing to Rust . What with the imminent 1.0 release, now is a great time to learn more about Rust and cont...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

New tutorial - arrays and vectors in Rust

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I've just put up a new tutorial on Rust for C++ programmers: arrays and vectors . This covers everything you might need to know about a...
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Friday, April 03, 2015

Graphs in Rust

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Graphs are a bit awkward to construct in Rust because of Rust's stringent lifetime and mutability requirements. Graphs of objects are v...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Creating a drop-in replacement for the Rust compiler

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Many tools benefit from being a drop-in replacement for a compiler. By this, I mean that any user of the tool can use `mytool` in all the w...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Recent syntactic changes to Rust

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The last few weeks I implemented a few syntactic changes in Rust. I wanted to go over those and explain the motivation so it doesn't ju...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

My thoughts on Rust in 2015

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Disclaimer: these are my personal thoughts on where I would like to see Rust go in 2015 and what I would like to work on. They are not offi...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

rustaceans.org

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I was getting frustrated trying to map people's irc nicks to their GitHub usernames (and back again). I assume other people were having...
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