Rust on Shepherd's Oasis

Statement on RustConf & Introspection

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On Friday, 26 May 2023, one of our collaborators — JeanHeyd “ThePhD” Meneide (AKA “Björkus Dorkus”) — was put in a position where he needed to consider withdrawing a talk related to our work on a possible future for compile-time reflection in the Rust Programming Language. We agree with his assessment of the situation and support his withdrawal from RustConf 2023. We support JT’s resignation from the Rust Project and stand in solidarity with them.

A Mirror for Rust: Compile-Time Reflection Report

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

With a powerful trait system, compile-time constants, and where-and-:-style bounding for types and constants, Rust’s take on generic functions has been a refreshing departure from the anything-goes, Wild Wild West, errors-only-when-called template system of C++. Furthermore, its macro system has been a much needed replacement of C’s underpowered macro system, allowing users to actually generate code in a consistent and dependable manner at compile-time, with the ever-powerful Procedural Macros (“proc macros”) taking care of some of the heaviest language extension tasks. But…

Catching a Use Case: Fallible Allocators

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It turns out there are two kinds of allocators in the world, and out of the Systems Programming languages we deal with here, C++ has the most special one!