This is a tracking issue for experimenting with the "throw expression" idea from RFC#0243. The feature gate for the issue is #![feature(yeet_expr)]. Per the lang process, this cannot go further tha... (more…)
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What Are Bitfields? The C programming language is a product of a time where it was important to use as few resoures as possible. Memory was measured in kilobytes rather than gigabytes as we do today. Bitfields offer a handy way to reduce memory usage. How... (more…)
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The Rust team has put out a call for 2021 Roadmap. So, I was thinking I … (more…)
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Yesterday, oyvindln made a PR to image-png to replace flate2 with deflate,
a DEFLATE and zlib encoder written in safe rust.
The PR was merged, and currently I am ecoing the new version in the Piston ecosystem.
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It's common in the software language community to worry about the "idiomatic" way of doing this. So what's the idiomatic or rust way to do... (more…)
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