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

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 4: unique pointers

Rust is a systems language and therefore must give you raw access to memory. It does this (as in C++) via pointers. Pointers are one area w...

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 3: primitive types and operators

Rust has pretty much the same arithmetic and logical operators as C++. `bool` is the same in both languages (as are the `true` and `false` ...

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Formatting change

Quick note - yes, I have changed the formatting on my blog - hope you like it!

Rust for C++ programmers - part 2: control flow

If The `if` statement is pretty much the same in Rust as C++. One difference is that the braces are mandatory, but brackets around the ...

Friday, April 18, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - an intermission - why Rust

I realise that in terms of learning Rust, I had jumped straight to the 'how' and skipped the 'why'. I guess I am in enough ...

Rust for C++ programmers - part 1: Hello world

This is the first in a series of blog posts (none written yet) which aim to help experienced C++ programmers learn Rust. Expect updates to ...

Monday, April 07, 2014

Anger

There was a lot of anger about Brendan being appointed CEO. There has been a lot of anger since he quit. It is in no way my place to tell p...

Sunday, April 06, 2014

Marriage

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings around the recent Brendan/CEO kerfuffle. Mostly though I think it has been better to listen than to t...

A very rough few thoughts on initialising data structures in Rust

This is not a well thought out blog post. It ought to be a tweet, but it is too long. Thoughts (in kind of random order): Rust has an o...

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Some thoughts on data structures in Rust

One thing I'm not so keen on in Rust (more of an itch, than a pain) is that there are a lot of data structures. C++ has classes and str...

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