I initially did not want to write a post with what I want and foresee for Rust in 2018, because I'm already very happy with it! I have spent more than 4 years tinkering with the language, experimenting, and I love the freedom I get when playing with low level stuff. In those 4 years, I discovered a wonderful, welcoming community and made some awesome friends. So, yes, I'm happy with Rust as it is :)

After working on the Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy for a while, I came up with an interesting approach to logging. Now why would I come up with my own logger, when there are existing solutions in Rust? Mainly, log and slog. That logging library grew up from testing things out with log, and changing requirements along the way.

In a previous post, I explained why rewriting existing software in Rust could be a good idea. The main point being that you should not rewrite the whole application, but replace the weaker parts without disturbing most of the code, to strengthen the codebase without disruption.

You might have seen those obnoxious "you should rewrite it in Rust comments" here and there:

Nearly one year ago, on November 15th 2015, I released the 1.0 version of nom, the fast parser combinators library I wrote in Rust. A lot happened around that project, and I have been really happy to interact with nom users around the world.