Amidst all of the talk surrounding the Road to Rust 1.0, I thought it would be fitting to talk about the corner of Rust with which I am most familiar, and what it will take to get Rust web dev to “1.0.” First things first, let’s celebrate what we’ve accomplished! …

New and improved! Iron was originally designed, implemented, documented and released in three weeks, the first week of which was mostly me and my teammates learning Rust in the first place! We have come a long way since then, and so has Iron. Today, I’m re-releasing Iron, version 0.0.1. I…

When crafting a general error type for Iron I came to a conclusion about the two different roles an error can serve: errors can be crafted for reporting, or they can be crafted for handling. Iron has rather demanding needs from an error type — it needs to be extensible…

In the mind of the classic explainer, learning has two steps: beginning and understanding — bridged first and foremost by a single realization brought about by the perfect explanation. In reality, learning is exponential. It is a process that demands enormous investment and initially provides mediocre returns. It is not…

or why Rust — Rust achieves Speed, Safety and Usability through the power of Zero Cost Abstractions — primarily robust pointer and type systems that offer safety and expressiveness with as close to zero performance penalty as possible. I recently read a Quora question that asked why we don’t write all software in C…

Promises are cool primarily for two reasons: Promises encapsulate the idea of a value that doesn’t exist yet or may never exist. Promises define what it means to chain computations on values that don’t exist yet. Together, these two qualities allow code that uses promises to be much clearer and…

Let’s talk about waiters, or really, rather, one waiter. See, there’s this pretty terrible restaurant with this one waiter in it and every time he takes an order from a customer he goes to the kitchen, tell’s one of the cooks there’s an order and then just stands by the…

I promise that if you’ve worked entirely in OO languages, Haskell is unlike anything you have ever seen before. Even if you’ve worked in languages with some functional features, like Python or Ruby, Haskell will still thoroughly blow your mind. To be honest, most programming languages are pretty similar to…

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