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…)

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…)

The Rust team has put out a call for 2021 Roadmap. So, I was thinking I … (more…)

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.

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…)