Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
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Servo is a web browser engine written in the Rust programming language. It is being developed by Mozilla. Servo is open source and the project is developed on github. I was looking for a small project to do some Rust programming and Servo being written in Rust seemed likely to have tasks that were small enough to do in my... more →
Update 2013-08-16, I've updated the first example based on feedback from the hacker news, /r/rust, and /r/programming threads. I attended an overview of how the Servo browser engine, written in the Rust programming language, implements the task of laying out of elements on a web page. Patrick Walton gave the talk and highlighted some of the implementation idioms in Servo.... more →
At a recent functional programming meetup I was discussing with a colleague about how nice it would be to be able to use Rust in Gecko. This made me curious if it was possible to implement libraries in Rust and call them from C. After the meeting I asked in #rust and got pointed to some projects that showed the... more →
Update 2011-11-08 - The steps to build Rust have changed since I wrote this post, there's now no need to build LLVM - it's included as a submodule in the Rust git repository and will automatically be cloned and built. A while ago I wrote a quick look at Rust post, describing how to build it and run some simple... more →
The Rust Programming Language is a systems programming language being developed by Mozilla. It was announced last year and has seen quite a bit of development since then. I've only been lightly following the development over the past year but recently decided to spend a bit more time looking at it. The following is a look at the language and... more →