Seven years ago I was working on a system that had a fat client desktop app written in C# and a Java backend. I signed up for a week-long C# training programme. I was fascinated about the bits of C# that had evolved away from Microsoft J++. A lot of the differences that still stuck in my mind were all about boilerplate removal. One of those was C# Extension Methods. I have posted some sample code of Rust Extention Methods over on GitHub. Read the rest of this entry »
The first thing item to research on my Rust spike is picking. A quick survey of the landscape indicates that serde appears to be the current defacto standard framework. Pickling was an area that I chose to hand code in the TRex Scala implementation. Why? Because Scala’s pickling engine crashed my JVM and wasn’t yet the stage of a stable disk format. I want to have no external dependencies for the inner Paxos library and as few as possible elsewhere. As Scala’s official pickling engine wasn’t ready for prime time, I was on my own. I had some fun writing my own ByteChain based pickling where I wrote a compact binary wire encoding for unsigned integers. With Rust does serde put me in a better place? Read the rest of this entry »
