Rust Class Resources

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Rust Class

Getting Started

• Install Rust: https://www.rustup.rs/
  • NOTE the other-installation-methods link, I recommend not piping the internet into your shell
• Install rustfmt rustup component add rustfmt-preview
• For code completion, install racer https://github.com/racer-rust/racer
• For linting, install clippy cargo +nightly install clippy
  • NOTE: change your editor’s clippy command to cargo +nightly clippy to ensure that clippy also works in stable

References

• The Book - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/
• Standard Library - https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/
• Packages - https://crates.io/
• Illustration of Rust’s ownership model - https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow
• Choose your guantantees - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/choosing-your-guarantees.html
• Performance pitfalls - https://llogiq.github.io/2017/06/01/perf-pitfalls.html

Class topics

• Best-effort Rust version of Shae’s Haskell introduction
  • Shae’s haskell here: https://github.com/shapr/BookWords/blob/master/app/Main.hs
  • Blades’s rust here: https://github.com/christian-blades-cb/wordcount-from-scratch
• Wordcount
  • The prepared version https://github.com/christian-blades-cb/bookwords-rs
  • The one we made live in class https://github.com/christian-blades-cb/wordcount-from-scratch
• Shortest path to NSFW (current series)
  • https://github.com/christian-blades-cb/corroded_conversations