Mathieu De Coster

Setting up Apache Spark with Java on Windows

15 April 2018

Setting up Spark for use in Java in Windows is fairly easy if you know what to do. I will take you through the steps needed here.

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Move semantics: an introduction in C++

01 September 2017

Move semantics are an important subject in two popular system programming languages: Rust and C++(11). Rust takes a fundamentally different approach to move semantics than C++, being move-by-default. This blog post will assume (beginner-level) knowledge of C++ and Rust and can serve as an introduction to move semantics as a concept before moving on to more technical explanations and reasoning behind certain implementations. It is especially interesting to people coming from Rust that want to know how to emulate the behaviour they have come to expect from that language.

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Why you should be excited about Rust 1.15

02 February 2017

Today marks the release of Rust 1.15. I have been eagerly awaiting this specific release for a while, because it comes with procedural macros and custom derives. You should be excited too, because this release means a lot for production Rust without having to use nightly releases.

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Fighting the Borrow Checker

16 January 2017

One of the most common questions asked by beginners about Rust is "How do I satisfy the borrow checker?". The borrow checker is probably one of the steepest parts of Rust's learning curve, and it is understandable that beginners have some trouble applying the concepts in a real world situation.

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Creating a web API using Iron

24 November 2016

The following is a word-for-word copy of a tutorial I wrote in November of 2016. The original tutorial can be found on my GitHub page.

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