Rust

The Rust programming language, its ecosystem, and the experience of working with it.

2025

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue Dec 21, 2025
• Is Rust faster than C? Jun 9, 2025
• Rust 1.0, ten years later May 15, 2025
• Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust Apr 7, 2025
• Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees? Mar 17, 2025
• A Happy Day for Rust Mar 5, 2025

2024

• When should I use String vs &str? Oct 16, 2024

2023

• Memory Safety is a Red Herring Dec 21, 2023
• Updating Buck Using Buck to Build Rust Projects May 8, 2023
• Using Crates.io with Buck Using Buck to Build Rust Projects Apr 27, 2023
• Using buck to build Rust projects Using Buck to Build Rust Projects Apr 13, 2023
• Rust's Golden Rule Mar 27, 2023
• Too many words about Rust's function syntax Jan 3, 2023

2020

• Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust? Oct 16, 2020
• The CXX Debate Aug 22, 2020
• How often does Rust change? Apr 11, 2020
• A sad day for Rust Jan 17, 2020

2019

• Rust has finally outgrown me Mar 29, 2019
• Learning Ada Mar 26, 2019

2018

• Thoughts on Rust in 2019 Dec 27, 2018
• Six years with Rust Dec 21, 2018
• You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust Sep 14, 2018
• Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash? Jul 25, 2018
• WebAssembly is more than just the web Jul 13, 2018
• "The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited Feb 14, 2018
• Looking back at Rust in 2018 Jan 9, 2018

2017

• Five years with Rust Dec 21, 2017
• "The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust Oct 25, 2017
• Want to join the Rust docs team? Mar 24, 2017
• An overview of macros in Rust Jan 24, 2017
• Announcing Rust Contributors Jan 12, 2017

2016

• Fire Mario not fire flowers Dec 29, 2016
• Rust is more than safety Dec 28, 2016
• Four years with Rust Dec 21, 2016
• What's new with "The Rust Programming Language" Aug 15, 2016
• Structure literals vs. constructors in Rust Jul 26, 2016

2015

• "The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press Sep 8, 2015
• Community Versions for Rust Aug 23, 2015
• A new introduction to Rust Feb 27, 2015

2014

• Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve Jun 16, 2014
• A 30 minute introduction to Rust Jan 11, 2014

2013

• Rust is surprisingly expressive Dec 28, 2013
• Pointers in Rust, a guide Oct 18, 2013
• Rust-y Scraps: iterating with a step May 30, 2013
• Upgrading from Rust 0.5 to 0.6 Apr 7, 2013