In Rust, one of the most common ways to implement core traits (like Debug, Display, and Clone) is to #[derive(…)] them, e.g.: #[derive(Debug)] struct Widgets { foo: u32, bar: usize, } What I didn’t know until recently is that Rust … Read more
Here’s a little idiom that I haven’t really seen discussed anywhere, that I think makes Rust code much cleaner and more robust. I don’t know if there’s an actual name for this idiom; I’m calling it the “block pattern” for … Read more
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. This is a CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname Perform binary analysis in your terminal. A … Read more
Daniel Lemire’s recent post “runtime asserts are not free” looks at the run-time cost of assert statements in C and shows that a simple assert in a frequently executed loop can cause significant overhead. My own opinion on assertions has … Read more
Rust’s Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks | Brooks Blog Home Blog 01 Nov, 2024 Rust is my favorite programming language. I’ve been writing Rust for about 6 years, from college to professionally, and I’m vocal about how helpful the … Read more
People complain about Rust syntax. I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust’s syntax, they actually object to Rust’s semantics. In this slightly whimsical post, I’ll try to disentangle the two. Let’s … Read more
Recently, a pair of critical vulnerabilities were reported in the OpenSSL project. Surprising absolutely nobody, the root cause of both vulnerabilities turned out to be a buffer overrun, which could be triggered by an attacker with a malicious payload to … Read more
I’ve seen a lot of misconceptions around what the unsafe keyword means for the utility and validity of Rust and its marketing as a “safe systems language”. The truth is a lot more complicated than a single pithy tweet can … Read more
Aria Beingessner March 19th, 2022 I think about unsafe pointers in Rust a lot. I literally wrote the book on unsafe Rust. And the book on pointers in Rust. And redesigned the Rust’s pointer APIs. And designed the standard library’s … Read more
There is an adage in the business world that goes something like this: ⊕ This quote is attributed to Theodore Levitt, but there is significant evidence that the adage predated his use of it. People don’t want to buy a … Read more