I left Microsoft at the beginning of July (after two years) and also stopped working on Rust at the same time. I intended to finish up some work and hand stuff over etc.

I recently read the blog post A decade of developing a programming language by Yorick Peterse (found via Steve Klabnik). I thought it was an interesting blog post which got me thinking, and

I've been a bit quiet on social media the past few months (more on what I've been up to in an upcoming post). I would like to write a bit more in the

Rust is an open source project. More than just the source code for the compiler being available, that means the project works in the open, inclusive of, and collaborating with, the wider community.

It seems to be fashionable to drop language design ideas in blog posts at the moment, so I thought I'd join in the fun with a post about defer blocks (don't run off

I seem to be writing a few of these 'clarification' posts... Anyway, in my last post, I wrote "One partial solution might be to start planning a 2.0 release", I was deliberately

The core team used to call for blog posts to help plan the next year. The core team has pretty much disappeared and certainly hasn't called for blog posts, but I'm going to

I had a good conversation with Ryan Levick (the core team's representative on the Foundation board) about my last blog post, between that and some more thinking, I'd like to refine and clarify

In response to the 'Call for blogs / ideas on Rust Foundation Strategy 2023-25', this post details where I think the Foundation should be headed over the next few years. I think we must

Error handling in Rust is a bit of an intermediate topic. That is in part because error handling in any language is actually more complicated than it seems, partly because it is a

The Rust project is run by its teams, such as the language team, library team, and community team. The teams are the primary structure for organising work and people in the Rust project,

Rust is in a pretty good place; it is getting more and more popular, has more and more contributors, and is used in some pretty significant places. However, it is a time of

In programming and programming language design we often talk about complexity. And for good reason! Complexity often feels like the enemy we are battling when learning a new codebase or new programming language,

Completion-model IO systems don't work naturally with the Read trait. In this post I want to explore why that is and some alternatives. Many of the issues are related to cancellation, and there

I think the Rust RFC process needs serious reform. In this blog post, I'll explain why I think that, by covering some of the problems with the current process. Before I get all

The Read and Write traits are key to IO in Rust and designing the async versions of these traits (and migrating runtimes to use them) is crucial for improving interoperability and portability in

Async programming in Rust is built on top of the operating system's async IO facilities. While it is possible to just use async/await for control flow, mostly people use async for async

In previous years, the core team have asked the community to write new years blog posts about Rust in the coming year. They haven't this year, but I wanted to write one anyway.

I made a small crate for easy-to-use IO in Rust. It is called ezio, and 0.1 is released today. It is a simple crate and it is ready to use now. I

A goal of the async foundations working group is for async Rust to be portable and interoperable. I want to dig in to what that means in this blog post. For a little

Unlike other Rust features, you can't just write await in your code and run it. You need to use an async runtime like Tokio or async-std. But why? And what do these runtimes

We're pleased to announce the 0.1 release of the TiKV Rust client. TiKV is a distributed key-value store. TiKV is powerful, mature, and widely used as part of TiDB (a 'NewSQL' database)

RFCs are how changes are made to Rust (language, libraries, core tools, processes and governance, etc.). If you want to keep abreast of changes to Rust or want to deeply understand a feature

One of the more subtle aspects of Rust is how traits can be used as types. In this blog post I will attempt a bit of a deep dive into how to use

Crafting a beautiful PR is not a high priority for a lot of people, but I think it should be! In this post, I'll expound on what a good, well-organised PR looks like,