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Jake Goulding
Personal blog · jakegoulding.com/blogprogramming
Jake Goulding's personal blog at jakegoulding.com covers programming. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “The Rust FFI Omnibus – Soliciting Suggestions and Feedback”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jake Goulding's blog for Rust FFI material, especially the FFI omnibus with examples of calling Rust from other languages, plus posts on Rust on Arduino and writing C-compatible libraries in Rust.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We can’t yet compile the stock version of libcore, so in the meantime we have our own version with the essentials. Because we’ve directly …
Most-linked posts?
- The Rust FFI Omnibus – Soliciting Suggestions and Feedback6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-06-27
- Rust on an Arduino Uno5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-05-11
- Test double terminology - The misuse of the term "mock"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Google's results have definitely become more quirky. Just now I was writing some SQLite database code and was wondering how the sum() aggregate handles integer overflow. So I searched for "sqlite integer overflow" in DDG and Google. To my surprise the first result in Google is someone's random blog post[0] from 2011 describing their experience which doesn't answer my question at all. I am very surprised Google decid…
Comment linking /blog/2011/02/06/sqlite-64-bit-integers/
on “DuckDuckGo Traffic”Submitted Rust on an Arduino Uno as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHave you seen the FFI omnibus http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/ which includes C# examples?
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on “Four years with Rust”Submitted Refactor and make changes in different commits as a story · 5 points
HN discussionArduino - http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-u...
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-uno/
on “Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)”Submitted When refactoring isn't refactoring as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI won't do this justice, so I'll point you to the Rust book on this subject: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch19-01-unsafe... In short, at the moment, if you want a stable ABI, you must export an un_mangled C interface. This is easy enough. One of my favorite sites is this for FFI stuff: http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/ It covers a bunch of languages, and suggests techniques for overcoming an…
Comment linking /rust-ffi-omnibus/
on “Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C”Submitted The Rust FFI Omnibus – Soliciting Suggestions and Feedback as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote on a similar topic [1], about writing system libraries in Rust with a C API and bindings to other languages. Which covers a bit of this, plus some of the sharp edges of FFI. Most of the trickier parts of it are covered in the FFI omnibus [2]. Also worth checking out is the cbindgen tool [3]. [1]: https://libpasta.github.io/blog/bindings/ [2]: http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/ [3]: https://github.com/…
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on “Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux”Submitted Finding a race condition in Capybara with Selenium as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWell because Rust's support for Arduino is still in its infancy [1]. [1]: http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-u...
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-uno/
on “The Resurgence of C Programming”Submitted What I've learned about testing over the last year as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot the OP, but I did a talk on an incremental rewrite of a C library to Rust [1]. Rust has good FFI capabilities with C and other languages through that [2]. [1]- https://github.com/carols10cents/rust-out-your-c-talk [2] - http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/
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on “Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?”Submitted Rust on an Arduino Uno (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRust produces standard linkable system libraries. You can produce dynamic libraries or static libraries on all supported platforms. For actual examples of using Rust with other languages through these libraries this site is great: http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/
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on “Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?”Submitted A little dip into Ruby's Marshal format (Part 1 / 3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is all personal opinion so take it with a grain of salt. I think Rust could do some serious C++ competition if it could dethrone C++ from some platform or have a worthy alternative. That is I think Rust really needs a killer app/platform/problem similar to how Swift has Apple devices and DevOps now have Go. If Rust could get into a gaming platform or have a really good gaming library like Unity it could have a…
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-uno/
on “Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?”Submitted The stages of code review as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Think pass-by-value structs with only fixed size fields. There are (at least) three issues with that: 1. not all FFIs can handle structs, according to the Rust FFI omnibus GHC's doesn't[0] 2. the callee side must be able to express on-stack by-value structs, many (most?) managed languages don't, either not supporting them or having them only as optimisation (based on escape analysis) 3. and finally the layout (and…
Comment linking /rust-ffi-omnibus/tuples/
on “Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL”Submitted Test Double Terminology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't know when this was last updated, but: http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/ It's got a nice breakdown of how to bring rust libraries into a few languages. There are a few tutorials about how to make rust produce a static or shared library, but it's pretty straightforward.
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on “Deciding to rewrite getaddrinfo in rust”Submitted Test double terminology - The misuse of the term "mock" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA prominent member of the rust community has been publishing a series on getting rust to target their Uno: http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-u...
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-uno/
on “Rust compiler walk-through – Introduction”
