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…)

A modular, low-level code generation toolkit for Rust. - chrischtel/rask... (more…)

I'm stepping down from Rust's core team. It's my last official involvement with Rust, and I'm kinda sad about leaving. Rust is exciting and important, and I love the community and technology. It has been a joy and an education to work with the core team; ... (more…)

Good morning! It is still 2020, and the world is literally on fire , so I guess we could all use a distraction. This article continues the tradition of me getting shamelessly n... (more…)

A new era of statically typed, natively compiled, programming languages has arrived sweeping aside the old choice between performance and productivity while also eliminating runtime dependencies on an interpreter or VM. Two of the top contenders are Rust ...