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Author of http://zero2prod.com, a book on web development in Rust 🦀
Principal Engineering Consultant at Mainmatter, ex AWS, ex TrueLayer.
Opinions are my own.
cheadergen, a new tool for generating C headers from Rust crates, is now ready to try!
I've been working on it for a while, and it has seen enough real-world use that I'm comfortable recommending it to others.
The project grew out of experience working on a mixed C/Rust codebase and the challenges of incremental migration.
Documentation, examples, and source: https://cheadergen.com
That weird urge to go build a new CI platform.
Pure control plane for task orchestration, plug-your-own-compute with a marketplace of vendors, easy to bridge to GHA for initial adoption.
New year, new vacancies: Mainmatter is looking (again!) for an experienced Rust developer to join our Rust migration projects.
C, C++, Delphi. Different starting points, same target: Rust!
If you're interested, send an email to the address in the screenshot.
Little update on my reflection adventures: I have extracted the core components of Pavex's compile-time reflection engine as a set of standalone crates!
It serves as a preliminary step ahead of another release in the coming weeks 🛠️
Mainmatter is looking for an experienced Rust developer to join one of our projects as a freelancer.
We're migrating a database from C to Rust. The project is complex and performance-sensitive. That's what makes it fun!
If you're interested, send an email to the address in the screenshot.
RustConf just uploaded on YouTube the recording of my C-to-Rust migration talk!
Check it out if you want to learn more about the Rust work we've been doing on Redis Query Engine over the past few months.
https://youtu.be/H0AUP2OgppE?si=aCCcqHDc8gSnid3p
That beautiful feeling of being ~done on a 35k lines* PR 🍉
*Don't do this at work.
**Many lines are test snapshot updates.
@djc@hachyderm.io Today I discovered https://docs.rs/reqwest/latest/reqwest/struct.ClientBuilder.html#method.use_preconfigured_tls which solves the issue for reqwest.
Concrete goal: define a driver-agnostic way to configure a Postgres connection.
Then you research the details, obsess over an aspect (i.e. SSL configuration) and end up working for several ways on a generic way to configure a TLS client policy.
Cool, but slow.
Less than 10 days left before Rustlab!
It's a conference that's close to my heart—one of the first I spoke at, back in 2019! Years have been passed, but the vibe and the community have only improved.
Tickets are still available—use `SP20FR` for a last-minute 20% discount.
@djc@hachyderm.io The screenshot has the general shape (and the default values). The goal is to expose enough knobs to cover 99% of usecases; ideally, most folks never need to change the defaults.
There are only two fields missing that I plan to add later on:
Stuff like ALPN will instead be configured by the specific protocol handling the connection.
Sessions for Pavex are *almost* done now.
Just a couple more finishing touches.
@djc@hachyderm.io The Rust code is here: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2024&gist=b3b17a48ab131b55e5c0c759afc0f330 Not yet merged into Pavex, I need to find time to write some tests.
The main challenge is mapping this configuration over the underlying protocol manager.
E.g. reqwest doesn't yet expose rustls-platform-verifier, as you know. sqlx has a PR to add support for it, but the shape of its config forces you to choose between OS roots and your own roots, no way to combine. Etc.
Days since I needed Span::join on stable: 0