Tag: programming
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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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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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Why Elixir? ⚗️🧪
Elixir, other than being an alchemical cure-all, does double duty as a programming language that’s good for fast, resilient, parallel computing. It has all the syntactical charm of Ruby, with the power of an alien (actually Swedish, but close enough) technology. But why am I learning Elixir now, after so many years of Ruby? To […]
Brian Kung 