Grief has been in my life for two years. It took me by surprise, and it changed everything. There are some Big Words that we reserve for Big Circumstances. “Grief”, we see as a sacred process surrounding a Big Loss. “Trauma”, we see as a wo…
Hi y’all! After some time away on mental health leave (which you can read more about here if you’re curious), I’m fully back to work at the Mozilla Rust team. I won’t be returning to Lang Team or Async work, but will instead be working full…
I usually start with some pivotal moment and work outward from there. Leaving my religion. Getting on antidepressants. Starting therapy. My partner coming out as trans. Starting therapy again. It doesn’t really matter; the story of my menta…
When there are multiple ways to resolve dependencies, Cargo generally chooses the newest possible version. The goal of this post is to explain why Cargo works this way, and how that rationale relates to several recent discussions, including…
In this third post in the listening and trust series, I’m going to talk through one of the most intense discussions the Rust community has had: the module system changes that were part of last year’s ergonomics initiative. The modules saga
In the previous post in this series, I recounted an early lesson for the Rust Core Team about working in the open. In this post, I want to talk about the delicate interplay between listening and trust when doing design in the open. I honest…
For me, most weeks working on Rust are fun — exhilarating, even. But, just like with anything else, some weeks are hard. As this week draws to a close, I feel troubled. On the one hand, things are looking strong for the 2018 Edition (which
The networking working group is pushing hard on async/await notation for Rust, and @withoutboats in particular wrote a fantastic blog series working through the design space (final post here). I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the…
Another topic of discussion at the Berlin Rust All Hands was the long-term story around Cargo, Xargo, and Rustup. The latter two tools are both involved in managing your Rust toolchain, with Xargo allowing you to build custom stds and Rustu…
As of this morning, the futures crate version 0.2.0 is now available on crates.io! You can get the full low-down on the changes from my earlier post; here I’ll review the overall roadmap and what this release means. Our goal is to ship asyn…
One of the big requests from the Domain Working Groups for Rust 2018 is a richer feature set for framework- or domain-specific workflows in Cargo. At the simplest level, that might look like project templates – the ability to direct cargo n…
Specialization holds the dubious honor of being among the oldest post-1.0 features remaining in unstable limbo. That’s for good reason, though: until recently, we did not know how to make it sound. There’s a long history here, but I’ll pick…