Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust - reth/crates/storage/libmdbx-rs at main · paradigmxyz/reth... (more…)

Reflection is something a lot of people wish the Rust language had: It is not hard to stumble across somebody with an interesting use case for it. (more…)

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Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptog... (more…)

Without any doubt, macros are an important feature of the Rust programming language. Macros like println!, lazy_static!, various derive-macros and many others have saved countless hours of writing tedious boilerplate code. However, not everything is perfe... (more…)