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Rust doesn’t have namespaces in its package management system. It’s often viewed as a bug. But it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! While there are negative aspects of a flat package registry, there are also real benefits. Stability, continuity, and unity (discourages forks and fragmented identity). Proposals that seek to add namespacing without addressing the positive aspects…
I’ve used Rust a couple times at work for small tools, and written a couple of experiments in Rust. So before saying what I want out of Rust, I’d just like to say thanks to the wonderful community. I liked the Rust 2019 progress, and I can put most of my wants for 2020 under two main labels. Embrace The 2019 roadmap was great. We got a good start, but it seems like most areas still…
There’s been a bit of noise around on auditing usage of unsafe in Rust dependencies. I’d like to add my thoughts: a review of what unsafe is, why it gives people issues, and what I think a better (but currently non-existent) approach is. A Brief Rust Primer Rust is a language that doesn’t use garbage collection. Instead it has the borrow checker, which tracks data access,…
I’m a curious developer who loves throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. I enjoy considering things that seem hard, dumb or outlandish - I occasionally find ideas worth implementing from those. I have a small family and enjoy my time with them when not working. They are a great source of joy.
A couple years ago I wrote an experimental strongly statically typed DSL for testing a web-app in Kotlin. It was actually composed of two parts: the DSL generator, and the generated DSL itself. It didn’t survive as the solution we were looking for, but it was an informative experiment, and I think there’s potential in the approach I took with it. At the time, I was one a few engineers…