I have just spent some time doing an initial async version of lorikeet now that the async/await syntax is stable and the ecosystem has caught up. The major blocker was reqwest, as this is used extensively in the http test.
This async version is available…
One of the challenges I have had with on premise solutions is the lack of reliable environments and constrained resources. Not only are you limited in your ability to control things, you need to ensure that things continue on in the case of failure.
I w…
While upgrading dependencies (basically deleting Cargo.lock) in a big rust project I hit an issue. A new commit in serde_json caused has upstream failure in another library, jmespath, and possibly more crates. Because these structs and enums visibility h…
With the new std::future way of doing things and tokio slowly reaching maturation, it's time to look at updating the libraries out there that are using the old ways. For one of my libraries, tmq, a Tokio ZeroMQ library, there is some awesome work already…
2019 was another huge year for rust, but instead of implementing the shiny new thing, it's been a focus on refining existing ideas.
Having being using rust professionally for over 3 years, I feel I will very soon be regailing new rust developers of the ti…
