In this design meeting there was a discussion about the syntax to use for returning early with an error. The considered keywords were fail, throw, raise, yeet. I couldn't find any more recent discussion. 💡💡 Essentially, this is syntactic sugar for Err(... (more…)

We are using Rust extensively in the firmware of the BitBox02 hardware wallet. In a security device like this, you don’t want to leave sensitive material in memory for longer than necessary. In particular, when the value is being dropped, the memory shoul... (more…)

Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough. (more…)

There’s something missing from the documentation of CLI tools. They often have home pages that do a great job of explaining the core concepts, giving a “Quick Start” guide, and demonstrating some use cases. (more…)

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