Toy around with rust

This is a gathering of personal notes.

The basics

• Install Rust
• Creating a New Package - The Cargo Book
  • cargo new: creates a new Cargo package in a new directory using the name you pass it
  • cargo init: creates a new Cargo package in current directory
• cargo example
• cargo test

IDE

• vscode
  • rust-analyzer - Visual Studio Marketplace
  • Even Better TOML - Visual Studio Marketplace

GUI related

• A Survey of Rust GUI Libraries | boringcactus
• Rust GUI: Introduction, a.k.a. the state of Rust GUI libraries (As of January 2021) - DEV Community
• Getting Started with Iced
• Getting Started with Druid

Rust users

• Rewriting the heart of our sync engine - Dropbox
• Production users - Rust Programming Language
• 9 Companies That Use Rust in Production
• Game studio Ready At Dawn switching to Rust for all new development : programming
  • "A survey at one point demonstrated that half of the most serious security bugs in Firefox were caused by memory unsafety."
  • "Rust's safety guarantees can let you be more aggressive, which feels counter intuitive at first... When you have a language that's checking stuff for you, you can be more confident that you're getting things correct."
  • "you never need to write a Makefile."