Articles tagged #rust
JavaScript, low-level or AI?
The software industry sees an interesting tension between generative AI capturing the software lifecycle and low-level languages aiming for better performance. As developers we must understand these trends and find a strategy. Learn one or both?
Why you should consider Rust for your Lambdas
Rust is an ideal language for writing AWS Lambda functions. Its performance can reduce execution time and memory usage, lowering costs. Its safety features like no nulls and error handling can reduce bugs.
Building x86 Rust containers from Mac Silicon
This article walks through the challenges of cross-compiling a Rust web app from a Mac Silicon machine to an x86 Docker container using musl, RusTLS, multi-stage builds and other techniques to produce a small container image.
How to to_string in Rust
This article explores how to convert values to strings in Rust using traits like Debug, Display and ToString. It explains the difference between user-facing and debug representations.
Rust shenanigans: return type polymorphism
This article explores return type polymorphism in Rust through examples like Default::default() and a custom dice rolling library. The technique allows writing generic functions that can return different types based on usage. Useful for extensible APIs.
Where to go to learn Rust in 2021
This article provides a list of free and paid resources to learn Rust in 2021 including books, blogs, videos, newsletters, podcasts, communities, exercises, workshops, and open source projects.
Learning Rust through open source and live code reviews
This article summarizes the experience of two developers learning Rust by building an open source project and having it reviewed live by a Rust expert. It covers the improvements suggested during the review, including simplifying project structure, adding documentation, handling strings, removing code duplication, improving input validation and testing.