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Things I hate about Rust, redux
Two years ago, I wrote a post with a handful of grievances about Rust , a language that I then (and still) consider my favorite compiled language.
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TL;DR: I’ve turned my April post on Brocards for vulnerability triage into a more permanent website. You can now link to each brocard directly, like this , without having to worry about link rot 1 .
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Things I hate about Rust
Five years ago, I wrote a post about the things I hated most about my then (and still) favorite scripting language: Ruby.
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Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic
TL;DR: You can use Pydantic’s support for tagged unions to approximate sum types in Python; go right to Sum types in Python (and onwards) to see how it’s done.
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Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust
This post is a quick walkthrough of how I wrote a Python library, procmaps , in nothing but Rust. It uses PyO3 for the bindings and maturin to manage the build (as well as produce manylinux1 -compatible wheels).