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David Tolnay

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  • I work on the Rust standard library API team reviewing every API change to the standard library.
  • I maintain foundational Rust crates including serde, syn, quote that practically everyone working with Rust will use. As of 2024, 60% of all published crates on crates.io depend transitively on syn; 40% depend transitively on serde; 42.5% depend directly on at least one crate by me.
  • I create teaching material for advanced Rust concepts including my case studies project, procedural macro workshop, and Rust quiz.
  • I set an example for thoughtful Rust library design, as seen in anyhow or thiserror.
  • I have earned a reputation for regularly coming up with highly creative, out-there but ultimately highly valuable ideas.

  • Some examples of interesting projects:
    • Watt, a runtime for executing Rust procedural macros compiled as WebAssembly designed to provide faster compilation, isolation, and determinism.
    • Async-trait, a macro for using async functions in Rust traits with dynamic dispatch.
    • No-panic, make the compiler verify it's impossible for a function to panic.
    • Cargo-expand, Cargo subcommand to show the result of macro expansion.
    • Trybuild, a library for testing the diagnostics a user would see from an incorrect macro call.
    • Paste, easily concatenate identifiers from inside a macro_rules macro.
    • Prettyplease, a lightweight pretty-printer that is well suited to generated code and much faster than rustfmt.

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Featured work

  1. dtolnay/cxx

    Safe interop between Rust and C++

    Rust 5,530
  2. dtolnay/anyhow

    Flexible concrete Error type built on std::error::Error

    Rust 5,069
  3. dtolnay/thiserror

    derive(Error) for struct and enum error types

    Rust 4,040
  4. dtolnay/proc-macro-workshop

    Learn to write Rust procedural macros  [Rust Latam conference, Montevideo Uruguay, March 2019]

    Rust 3,839
  5. dtolnay/syn

    Parser for Rust source code

    Rust 2,681
  6. dtolnay/cargo-expand

    Subcommand to show result of macro expansion

    Rust 2,452

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