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> crab-in-a-human-skull cover Anyone know the story behind this?
I got a Hamlet vibe from it when I picked the book up when it originally released. It could just be because it looks pretty sick though
(Slightly more seriously, the project to replace the borrow checker was called Polonius[1], so it wouldn't be the first Hamlet reference in Rust land.)
Worth noting that this set of exercises was created by the author of "Zero to Production in Rust", the well-reviewed book with the crab-in-a-human-skull cover[1]. [1]: https://www.zero2prod.com
[0] https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/a-taste-of-pavex-rust-web-fr...
[1] https://blog.logrocket.com/using-pavex-rust-web-development/
I maintain a list of Rust tips and tricks for people who are looking to dig a bit deeper: https://geeklaunch.io/blog/rust-pro-tips-collection/
Worth noting that this set of exercises was created by the author of "Zero to Production in Rust", the well-reviewed book with the crab-in-a-human-skull cover[1]. [1]: https://www.zero2prod.com
> crab-in-a-human-skull cover Anyone know the story behind this?
So my n=1 study indicates it was a successful design. :)
What do you folks normally do after learning a language like this? (Assuming you don't use it for your day job.)
So I went through the Build your own Redis challenge by https://codecrafters.io. It was a a good excuse to get my hands dirty with all the different Rust concepts (with a bit of structure).
I hate to be stickler, but on the very first page ("Syntax"), right after explaining comments, the text says "In previous exercise, you saw the greeting function..." Unless I'm missing something, this is the very first intro to Rust, and so there are no prior exercises...
This looks like a great resource! https://rust-exercises.com/03_ticket_v1/07_setters This shows why I wouldn't use Rust for anything. Seems like a lot of verbosity for gains that don't really apply whatsoever for the kind of work I do (web apps and APIs). You have to remember let/mut fine, but then ownership/borrowing, and finally this `into()` thing - yuck! Like washing your face with sandpaper.
You get ridiculous performance gains with Rust a web backend. Even Microsoft is rewriting part of their C# backend to Rust on the 365 application side of things. Which is where you get to deal with the hefty ms-graph api which handles literal fucktons of data. Anyway. It is more verbose than something like Go or Python. I’m not sure it’s really so bad compared to most languages, but some of the benefits you get from…
It isn't as if C# vlatest wouldn't be able to take up the task, Bing, XBox game servers, and other large scale services are fully on .NET.