Rust, week 3

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This week I are mainly been liking...
  • play.rust-lang.org
  • The Rust books are written using rustdoc - I like the 'eating your own dogfood' philosophy, and the Rustlang folks are certainly eating it.
  • Attributes... a clean way of doing meta stuff in your code. 
  • New Rustacean podcast - fabulous podcast about learning Rust. Started listening to these during my daily commute - grab every minute you can to learn new stuff.
  • Really good talk about driving a GUI system with Rust by Raph Levien

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