For context, I was writing an smtp server. Not necessarily a good smtp server, but the kind of smtp server you'd write in two days to see what happens. As such, any conclusions from this experiment are invalid.giftAt the heart of the problem, and core to ... (more…)

Rust is a modern systems programming language whose type system guarantees memory safety. For the sake of expressivity and performance it allows programmers to relax typing rules temporarily, using unsafe code blocks. However, in unsafe blocks, the burden... (more…)

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview translated from Haskell to Rust - GitHub - insou22/typing-the-technical-interview-rust: https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-i... (more…)

We command the virtual GPU (virtio-gpu) by sending certain commands to the host (the device). The guest (the OS driver) has an allocation of RAM that becomes the framebuffer. The driver then tells the device, “hey, here’s the RAM that we’re going to use t... (more…)

Complete re-write in Rust! (more…)