Showing posts with label Mozilla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mozilla. Show all posts
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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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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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Thoughts on numeric types

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Rust has fixed width integer and floating point types (`u8`, `i32`, `f64`, etc.). It also has pointer width types (`int` and `uint` for sig...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

A gotcha with raw pointers and unsafe code

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This bit me today. It's not actually a bug and it only happens in unsafe code, but it is non-obvious and something to be aware of. Ther...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

LibHoare - pre- and postconditions in Rust

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I wrote a small macro library for writing pre- and postconditions (design by contract style) in Rust. It is called LibHoare (named after th...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 9: destructuring pt2 - match and borrowing

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(Continuing from part 8, destructuring). (Note this was significantly edited as I was wildly wrong the first time around. Thanks to /u/dpx-...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 8: destructuring

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First an update on progress. You probably noticed this post took quite a while to come out. Fear not, I have not given up (yet). I have bee...
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Friday, May 23, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 7: data types

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In this post I'll discuss Rust's data types. These are roughly equivalent to classes, structs, and enums in C++. One difference wit...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 6: Rc, Gc, and * pointers

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So far we've covered unique and borrowed pointers. Unique pointers are very similar to the new std::unique_ptr in C++ and borrowed refe...
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