Rust borrow checker author's new language designs.

Follow up posts:

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/09/hel...

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/10/dad...

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/14/sha...

RIP

Miri is so good. Thank you Ralf for dedicating yourself to this project for so long.

When I have Rust projects with subsystems that must be unsafe, I will design them around Miri testability. This mostly means writing small unit-testable units and isolating I/O as much as possible. I almost always find I have made mistakes that Miri catches.

I also clicked through a few times trying to get a clear description of what this is with no success.

"Start your Endeavour with a lightweight Arch-based, terminal centric system ready to personalise and a stellar community at your side"

- the front page of the site

The multiple meanings of many of the words in this sentence make it really poor at communicating what the site is about. "Endeavour" (with a capital 'E') is a proper name I associate with a space shuttle, and 'stellar' can mean 'having to do with stars'. So a first read for me leads to the conclusion that this site has something to do with space flight. And 'system' could mean almost anything. Maybe this site will let me personalize my own star system? All I can take away is that I'm not sure what this is, but clearly I'm not the target audience. Which I'm fine with.....

Rephrasing, Endeavour is something that is started with a terminal system based on Arch.

I know that's a cheesy way to say it's an Arch distro but I hope you notice how poor the phrasing is for someone trying to understand what they've been linked to.

This is a surprisingly wide-ranging video about robots and AI in context of Disney's theme parks.

I wanted to love this so much but my eyeballs were screaming trying to read the text over the crawling dither pattern.

I made it about 7 seconds

Congrats to the servo team. It's been a long road and it's amazing they kept it alive.

I've been using slint for a desktop project recently and having a lot of fun with it - it's pretty simple and the design has an interesting and fairly clean separation between the UI language and the backing application code (in Rust in my case). Recaptured a bit of my lost love for desktop apps.

How's it look and feel integration wise? Are the context menus native? Can you use native menubars?

These were a couple of my pain points with QML in the past, although they've been fixed in recent Qt releases.

If you have any code you can share, I'd love to see it.

On macOS and Windows, the menubar is native. On Windows, context menus are, too. On macOS it‘s a small patch away, we just haven‘t gotten around. (https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/7bb333c77dd477f8625c8... )

Shout out to the muda folks here and big thanks to npwoods :)

Nice, what's the story on Linux support on Wayland and Qt/GTK shells?

The TigerBeetle database docs have a page on financial accounting that is just a really good overview of double-entry accounting.

Rust was specifically designed to be refactorable and in my experience it is. It was part of the dogfooding process of building Rust in Rust - lots of changes to the language, lots of changes to the compiler, lots of churn. Rust's strong type system means you can refactor and be confident that programs continue to work.