2015–05

Defaulting to Thread-Safety: Closures and Concurrency
26 May 2015
Rust has some powerful tricks to model properties of aggregate types via unsafe traits with default and negative implementations. These features motivated by offering flexible concurrency/parallelism, and allow powerful closure-based APIs without losing any thread-safety (or memory-safety) guarantees at all.
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Rust 1.0 in Numbers
20 May 2015
Rust 1.0 was made with⁰…
1. I’ve tried to get the numbers that apply leading up to ↩
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Finding Closure in Rust
08 May 2015
Have you ever used an iterator adapter in Rust? Called a method on Option? Spawned a thread? You’ve almost certainly used a closure. The design in Rust may seem a little complicated, but it slides right into Rust’s normal ownership model so let’s reinvent it from scratch.
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Where Self Meets Sized: Revisiting Object Safety
06 May 2015
The concept of object safety in Rust was recently refined to be more flexible in an important way: the checks can be disabled for specific methods by using where clauses to restrict them to only work when Self: Sized.
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Travis on the train, part 2
01 May 2015
After announcing travis-cargo a few days ago in Helping Travis catch the rustc train, I got some great hints/contributions from Jan Segre and had a fun little time automating code coverage collection via coveralls.io. Unfortunately, this is a breaking change for existing users of travis-cargo, but the migration is easy.
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