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19th September 2018 - Link Blog

Build impossible programs. Delightful talk by Julia Evans describing how she went about building a Ruby profiler in Rust despite having no knowledge of Ruby internals and only beginner’s knowledge of Rust.

Posted 19th September 2018 at 6:38 pm

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