By Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer
Published May 15, 2018 11:00pm
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions.Â
Rust, the programming language, seems to be really trendy these days. Trendy to me means shows up a lot on hacker news. Rust is really interesting language though, and I think the growing popularity is deserved. Â
Today I talk with Jim Blandy, one of the authors of Programming Rust. We talk about what problems rust is trying to solve, the unique language features and type system of rust. It includes both algebraic data types, type classes, and generics. There is even a proposal somewhere for adding HKT. We also touch on...