Inspired by Ollie Charles and his excellent 24 days of Hackage series, I'm going to try and introduce you to a number of Rust language features, useful libraries and cool projects built with Rust.

In fact this is a learning opportunity for me too - as much as I love Rust, I'm just diving in. If you think I'm wrong or know an interesting library you want me to write about, feel free to comment!

There’s a fairly common argument that pops up on programming forums, and it’s about the nature of what “garbage collection” means. In the research world, this is what GC means: Garbage collection (GC), also known as automatic memory management, is... | Steve Klabnik | “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” - Emma Goldman

Examples of Python and Rust code to illustrate the concept of ownership.

Very good tutorial.

Experienced programmers often need to use online resources to pick up new programming languages. However, we lack a comprehensive understanding of which resources programmers find most valuable and utilize most often. In this paper, we study how experienced programmers learn Rust, a systems programming language with comprehensive documentation, extensive example code, an active online community, and descriptive compiler errors. We develop a task that requires understanding the Rust-specific language concepts of mutability and ownership, in addition to learning Rust syntax.

Our results show that users spend 42% of online time viewing example code and that programmers appreciate the Rust Enhanced package’s in-line compiler errors, choosing to refresh every 30.6 seconds after first discovering this feature. We did not find any significant correlations between the resources used and the total task time or the learning outcomes. We discuss these results in light of design implications for language developers seeking to create resources to encourage usage and adoption by experienced programmers.

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Tool for switching between different versions of commands.

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A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

The xi editor project is an attempt to build a high quality text editor, using modern software engineering techniques. It is initially built for Mac OS X, using Cocoa for the user interface. There are also frontends for other operating systems available from third-party developers.

Goals include:

1. Incredibly high performance. All editing operations should commit and paint in under 16ms. The editor should never make you wait for anything.

2. Beauty. The editor should fit well on a modern desktop, and not look like a throwback from the ’80s or ’90s. Text drawing should be done with the best technology available (Core Text on Mac, DirectWrite on Windows, etc.), and support Unicode fully.

3. Reliability. Crashing, hanging, or losing work should never happen.

4. Developer friendliness. It should be easy to customize xi editor, whether by adding plug-ins or hacking on the core.

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Rocket is a web framework for the Rust
programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications
without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.