In our new book Taxes Have Consequences: An Income Tax History of the United States, my co-authors Arthur Laffer, Jeanne Sinquefield, and I devote two chapters to the states and their imposition of ...

How pointers create pitfalls for a number of hard-to-detect programming errors. How Rust avoids these pitfalls and catches most pointer errors at compile time. Pointers have been a staple of ...

Rust is the new survival sandbox game from Garry 'Garry's Mod' Newman and it's an intimidating beast. Follow survival sandbox noob Dave Cook as he spends his first day in hell. Before starting this ...

What is the Rust borrow checker and why is it important? How mutability and reference-counted pointers are related. Arguably the most novel aspect of Rust, and the feature that’s the most challenging ...