Learning Rust

date: Thu Jan 14 01:38:23 UTC 2021

I'm a Rustacean now!

And I've gotta say I enjoy it.

I got ahold of "The Rust Programming Language", from No Starch Press. On top of

detailing how Rust does things in specific, it serves as a nice crash course

or reminder for basic programming concepts and structures like memory safety

and the logic behind primitives.

Thus far I've been fairly intrigued. I don't know what it is, but I like Rust a

lot more than C++, which seems to write very similar code syntactically.

Considering that I've spent a decent amount of time now having written both

languages' code in a terminal editor like nano, and then debugged and compiled

it from the command line, I'd take Rust and 'rustc' over C++ and 'gcc' any day

of the week! It's so much more helpful. There's a fairly spartan, almost elitist

view that I get from a lot of systems-level programmers familiar with C-based

languages; as if wanting to feel miserable for having to look up yet another

compiler or linker error's cryptic meaning is preferable to having the compiler

spell it out for you clearly so you can fix it.

Not that I've gotten that vibe from YOU, dear reader. But you get the point.

I like the re-hash of tried-and-true concepts that rust is built on, as opposed

to the artificially limited, outdated way of doing things in C/++ natively.

Not to mention ownership is friggin sweet, screw manual memory management. Out

of scope == out of mind!

Now to see what meaningful projects and applications I can develop with it to

sharpen my skills and get some real mileage out of the language.