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Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup
At Hologram, I loved getting to sign into work Slack and share knowledge with fellow software engineers of all experience levels. There were about 40 engineers in a company closing in on 200 employees. Meanwhile, the biggest change in my career as a software engineer recently has been learning Rust, which I’ve been calling a […]
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Why PHP is not for me
So most recently I was employed at Hologram and was therefore too busy to write. Not anymore – I was one of the employees laid off from Hologram recently. While at Hologram, I worked mostly in PHP, which was something I actually dreaded coming into the job, but ended up not minding as much as […]
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How and why our kids are learning Chinese
“Are you teaching your kids Chinese?” and “how are you teaching your kids Chinese?” are two questions we get a lot from Chinese American parents. One question I wish more parents asked us is “why?” When I was picking a major course of study in college, I consistently gravitated towards East Asian Languages and Culture […]
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Ruby has economy-class functions
Ruby has economy-class functions, not first-class functions. And that’s okay! It’s a great language anyway.
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Writing a Rust gem from scratch
This is a followup to the last post. Instead of using the template
rust_ruby_examplegem, we’ll make one from scratch. Make sure to go back over the “Using arubygemsfork” section because we’ll be using it heavily during this post, as well! -
Sneak preview: Writing Ruby gem native extensions in Rust
In December 2021, Ian Ker-Seymer (@ianks) submitted a pull request to add a
CargoBuilderclass for handling Rust code in gems, enabling native extensions in Rust!I was so excited, I had to try it out, even though it hadn’t been merged yet. A lot of maintainers are showing interest and pitching in, so I have high hopes for it being merged into main. So here are my notes on writing a Rust gem extension.
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Crate of the Week second chance list
TLDR – the three most upvoted crates that were never recognized as Crate of the Week in This Week in Rust are glutin, rust-cuda, and redshirt. The Crate of the Week is a Rust (programming language, not game) segment in the This Week in Rust newsletter that highlights a single Rust library in a given […]
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Building a CEDICT parser in Rust with Nom
The CEDICT format is a simple, creative commons-licensed file format for Chinese/English dictionaries. While Mandarin-only CEDICT parsers abound, there is basically no support for Cantonese jyutping in the English-speaking programming world. As someone who would have liked to use Cantonese pronunciations in my programs, at first I was stuck. I considered adding jyutping support to […]
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Contributing to Artichoke in Rust
Yesterday, I eked out a bit of time to contribute to Artichoke in Rust, in no small part due to the maintainer @lopopolo: Artichoke is an implementation of Ruby written in the Rust programming language. The issue I worked on was to expose a newly stabilized method in Artichoke’s implementation of the Ruby String class. […]
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Pipes in Elixir
Pipes are a delightful feature in Elixir that you can use to pass the evaluation of an expression into a function. For example, the code below will output “Hello, world!” to the terminal: You can use this to chain together different operations: And Elixir specifically substitutes the result of the expression into the first argument […]
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