These Weeks in Dev-tools #1
2017-08-14 Welcome to the first ever issue of 'These Weeks in Dev-Tools'! The dev-tools team is responsible for developer tools for Rust developers. That means any »
What the RLS can do
IDE support for Rust is one of the most requested features in our surveys and is a key part of Rust's 2017 roadmap. Here, I'm going »
Rustfmt changes
Updated with some small changes tl;dr active development of Rustfmt will become nightly only for a while, and the default formatting will change dramatically. There »
Rust is about productivity
TL;DR Primarily I would sell Rust as a language which lets you get stuff done and done quickly (all kinds of stuff, including lots of »
How fast can I build Rust?
I've been collecting some data on the fastest way to build the Rust compiler. This is primarily for Rust developers to optimise their workflow, but it »
Macros (and syntax extensions and compiler plugins) - where are we at?
Procedural macros are one of the main reasons Rust programmers use nightly rather than stable Rust, and one of the few areas still causing breaking changes. »
Macros and name resolution
This should be the last blog post on the future of macros. Next step is to make some RFCs! I've talked previously about how macros should »
Closures and first-class functions
I wrote a long and probably dull chapter on closures and first-class and higher-order functions in Rust. It goes into some detail on the implementation and »