Working on my cursed MIDI project, I needed a way to store the most recent messages without risking an unbounded amount of memory usage. I turned to the trusty ring buffer for this! I started by writing a very simple one myself in Rust, then I looked and what do you know, of course the standard library has an implementation. While I was working on this project, I was pairing with a friend. She asked me about ring buffers, and that's where this post came from! What's a ring buffer? Ring buffers a...