Summary: Computers weren't designed to have outside concepts, such as units of length, expressed in their function.
Because of this Rust, being a systems language, also has no concept of it.
But just because the computer runtime has no concept of length o... (more…)
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If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to note a major milestone for Mozilla, when we shipped Rust...
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Asynchronous programming in Rust: what it is, how to do it, and why we should care. (more…)
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