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Articles tagged with Rust

1. Vendoring Rust dependencies for a Debian derivative

   Tue 22 December 2020

   By Andrej Shadura

   Recently, I needed to package a Rust crate libslirp for a Apertis, a Debian derivative. libslirp is used by the newly release UML backend of debos, our Debian image build tool. Unfortunately, this crate hasn’t yet been properly packaged for Debian proper, so I could not simply pull the …

2. Rust-like enums in Kotlin

   Wed 25 September 2019

   By Andrej Shadura

   Rust has an exciting concept of enumeration types, which is much more powerful than enums in other languages. Notably C has the weakest type of enum, since there’s no type checking of any kind, and enum values can be used interchangeably with integers:

   enum JobState {
       PENDING,
       STARTED,
       FAILED,
       COMPLETED …