Programming

Once in a while I like to play with Advent Of Code problems 🎄. Today I decided to tackle an easy one and, since the answer was almost trivial to find, I wanted to go deeper and understand how to measure and improve the performance of the solution. ...

Inspired by a tweet from a fellow developer, I decided to take a look at Karax, a nifty framework for developing single page applications in Nim. After following the basic tutorials and examples, I searched for something more complex and found very sparse documentation, so I’ll write my findings here. As usual, the complete source code is on my github repo, where you can find also a working live demo....

In this post we are going to write a new module for python: a very simple function exported from Rust that we can consume in the Python interpreter. We’ll leverage the PyO3 Rust bindings for the Python interpreter. Let’s start with a new Cargo project: $ cargo init --lib demo_rust_lib and insert the required settings in Cargo.toml: [package] name = "rusty" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2021" [lib] name="rusty" crate-type = ["cdylib"] [dependencies....

Let’s get our feet wet; in this first part I’ll write about a very simple way to interface Rust and Python. First of all let’s build a Rust dynamic library with some basic functions. // this file is: src/lib.rs #[no_mangle] pub extern "C" fn hello() { println!("Hello from the library!"); } #[no_mangle] pub extern "C" fn sum(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { a + b } your Cargo.toml should look like this:...