Rust, week 1.

I've started looking at Rust again. I had a quick try of rust about 18 months ago when I was looking at modern alternatives to C++. At that time I learned a bit of Rust and also some Go. Both languages impressed me but to be honest I liked the feel of Go more... mainly because it was simpler to learn.

Time has passed and my mind has wondered back to Rust. This page is a scrap book of thoughts about Rust during my first week back.

Things I like about Rust...

• Built-in a build system (cargo)
• Immutable by default
• Explicit data ownership semantics
• Built-in documentation about the language and compiler errors
• Sensible type inference
• External module dependency versioning makes sense
• No implicit bool conversion
• Descriptive error reporting
• Tuples !

Things I'm not sure about... note I'm not saying these things are bad... just that I'm unconvinced at this point

• Allowing variable type changes via shadowing

Progress reading 'The Rust Book' - 6.1 Defining an enum.

Documentation is good and the community seem pretty tight and to know what they are doing. I've also watched a fair few Rust talks on YouTube now, which are easy to find. So go watch them !

More next week.