Phil Booth

Blog topic: rust

• Build a better release script

  4 years ago

  Automating your release process saves time, eliminates tedious busywork and reduces the likelihood of mistakes when cutting a new release. There are plenty of off-the-shelf solutions available, but this post will show how easy it is to build your own release script and why the end result can be better than using a generic, third-party option. Throughout the post I'll use the case study of some recent work we did to automate the release process for FxA, to provide concrete examples of what I'm talking about.
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• Custom assertions using Rust macros

  5 years ago

  Recently I wrote about how Rust macros make it easy to refactor repetitive code that might otherwise become annoying in a strongly-typed language. Continuing the theme from that post, I've noticed another use case where macros can be beneficial: writing custom assertions in tests.
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• Refactoring with Rust macros

  5 years ago

  Refactoring boilerplate code is always easy in dynamically-typed languages, but sometimes takes a bit more effort when constrained by strong typing. This is something I was puzzling over recently, when the penny dropped for me about how Rust's macros can be used to bridge the gap.
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• The elegance of Rust

  5 years ago

  Here's three little Rust tricks that I learned in the last week or so. Each struck me as being an elegant approach to working cleanly within the confines of a strongly-typed language.
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