Microsoft has been recently experimenting with Rust to improve the safety of their software. In a talk at RustFest Barcelona, Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez explained the challenges they faced to use Rust at Microsoft. Part of Mic... (more…)

This is a position paper that I originally circulated inside the firmware community at X. I've gotten requests for a public link, so I've cleaned it up and posted it here. This is, obviously, my personal opinion. Please read the whole thing before sending... (more…)

Transposing other language paradigms to Rust often reveals unforeseen issues. Here are some limitations of Rust and how to work around them. (more…)

This commit contains an RFC proposal to promote the aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu Rust target to Tier-1. Rendered... (more…)

Post the email update we sent to all@ a few weeks back to the insider's blog. (more…)