This post was originally drafted in August 2018, but I never got around to finishing it. As such, parts of its framing (e.g. the focus on bindgen) … (more…)

Have you ever noticed that some of the bounds on Rust’s collection types are weird? This is a very long and old story of a problem from before even 1.0. I will explain this problem, and then try to solve it in a new way. I will fail to do so, but in the p... (more…)

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A sample Rust service to test out Google Cloud Run - gsquire/rust_bin... (more…)

Error handling in Rust is very different if you’re coming from other languages. In languages like Java, JS, Python etc, you usually throw exceptions and return successful values. In Rust, you return something called a Result. (more…)