It has been more than six months since my last post on the Rust compiler’s performance. In that time I lost one job and gained another. I have less time to work directly on the Rust compiler than I used to, but I am still doing some stuff, while also work... (more…)

Higher kinded types is something which has been discussed a lot related to Rust in the past year, both as a feature people want, but also as a feature people do not really know what to do with. I am going to focus on the Monad trait in this post, since th... (more…)

The Rust team has announced the formation of a new non-profit group, the Rust Foundation, that will help guide the programming language and community. (more…)

Over the past few months, we’ve had some productive conversations with the JPEG-XL team at Google Research around the future of the format in Firefox. Our primary concern has long been the increase... (more…)

I have blogged a few times before about Stacked Borrows, my proposed aliasing model for Rust. But I am a researcher, and what researchers (are expected to) do is write papers—so that’s what... (more…)