Rust

Rust's derive often implies inline

In Rust, one of the most common ways to implement core traits (like Debug, Display, and Clone) is to #[derive(...)] them, e.g.:

RPGMapEditor Is Going Desktop: Offline Apps for Windows & Linux, macOS Planned

RPGMapEditor started as a browser-based map editor for creating RPG maps directly on the web. Now we're taking the next step: RPGMapEditor is coming to desktop.

Security in the LLM Age

Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)

David Hewitt shares a status update, first module, and potential acceptance criteria for the Rust for CPython project

Upstream Rust maintenance report

As noted in my previous report, I am currently working on the open source Rust toolchain as a Sovereign Tech Fellow. Every two months, I’m putting out a report of my open source work done in that period. This is the second installment of this series.

Generic Const Args and You

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Saving a 1950s Constructed Language with Rust, Tauri v2, and Svelte 5

Saving a 1950s Constructed Language with Rust, Tauri v2, and Svelte 5 This article is submitted for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge. In 1955, a sociologist and science fiction writer named Dr.

The Second Golden Spike: Memory Safety Across the Valen/Rust Boundary

In The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language, we saw how it was possible for a language to call Rust functions directly, without going through C, by directly integrating with the Rust compiler. 0 1

Announcing Rust 1.99.0

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Rust to WGSL transpiler `wgsl-rs` released

Wow! So much work went into this beta release. It's been the most organized project I've ever attempted, and I think that shows in the beta project board.

Finding Bugs

Are generative (randomized) tests significantly more effective than example-based unit-tests at discovering bugs? There's an interesting discussion about this on lobste.rs. One argument in favor of unit tests is, paraphrasing

Encrypting Wealthfolio: Keys, Backups, and Recovery

What it takes to encrypt a local SQLite database without making it harder to own your data. The keys, backups, temporary files, and recovery work behind a simple setting.

OpenBSD's ports tree keeps GPL coreutils and rejects uutils (Rust rewrite)

A contributor proposed a new OpenBSD port for uutils, the Rust reimplementations of GNU coreutils. The proposal met firm resistance: Stuart Henderson called it unusable, explaining that GNU coreutils exists mainly to stabilize GNU-sensitive build environments.

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

My last post on the Rust compiler’s performance was two months ago and a lot has happened since then.

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but actually replacing Serde is tricky because of the might that it has in the…

Pining for Arc Downcasting in Rust

In the course of writing my build driver, I came across a bit of an unusual problem, for which I made a bit of an usual solution. I think...

Announcing blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming

From a usage perspective, blob-stream is a streaming system that looks a lot like Kafka:

tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.