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thebracket

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About thebracket

Author of Hands-on Rust and Rust Brain Teasers.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #28865306

    I'm not sure what promos are active right now (I just got back from vacation). It will be included in the November Thanksgiving sales. You could also email support@pragprog.com - t…

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    Comment #28865203

    We should probably agree to disagree; your approach is just as valid as mine. My first attempt at a roguelike in Rust ( https://github.com/thebracket/rustyroguelike ) was a straigh…

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    Comment #28864064

    Page count was a real concern. I wanted to introduce Rust newcomers to easy concurrency, and keep the data-storage side of things manageable (storing a big list of dynamic objects …

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    Comment #28863985

    (Author here) Bob makes some good points, so I'd like to share my $0.02 on the ECS debate. The posters below who point out that a lot of Rust setups use ECS to avoid mutability iss…

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    Comment #28863781

    (Author here) That's the Roguelike tutorial I created, not the Hands-on Rust book. The two are quite different beasts, with a bit of overlap. Hands-on Rust is designed for the newc…

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    Comment #22034722

    Thanks for the explanation. I'll get that clarified/cleaned up in the tutorial soon. Tracking it on the associated Github as issue #73, so I don't forget.

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    Comment #22034462

    It's the standard "mdbook" that ships with Rust, also used for the Rust documentation. I pretty much suck at HTML, so I went with the easy markdown option and am enjoying the benef…

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    Comment #22034452

    Thanks for that! (I'm Herbert, made the tutorial; took a weekend away from the computer and it hit HN - nice surprise!). I definitely need to go back and fix a lot of my early Rust…