Hi, I'm Piotr, also known as @drogus in the internet.
I write technical articles on this blog, and work on open source projects.
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(async) Rust doesn't have to be hard
An article titled Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming came out today and it's getting a lot of attention. I have a feeling that it's viewed in a wrong context, so I'd like to comment on the issue raised there. A lot of the comments to the article are in a tone …
Arc and Mutex in Rust
When writing concurrent Rust you will encounter Arc and Mutex types sooner or later. And although Mutex might already sound familiar as it's a concept known in many languages, chances are you haven't heard about Arc before Rust. What's more, you can't fully understand these conce…