Rust

I’ve been learning Rust in my free time for the last 6 months. I read The Book and I’m in the middle of reading Rust for Rustaceans (my notes so far ), but after doing a couple of very small exercises and projects I wanted to do something more rusty. So on Sundays, in between espressos and with very good company, I started writing an external sort. This is the 1st post in a series, where I cover the code that generates the data to be sorted. Stay tuned for the next one! ...

Intro I’m really enjoying reading Jon Gjenset ’s Rust for Rustaceans . I appreciated the author’s decision to assume his target audience to be people who had just finished The Book , making it sort of an expansion or a Level II. However, I found it light on contrasting examples, as well as images. I’m more of a visual learner, so I find them very useful to understand what’s right (or wrong), or to help me create a mental model of a concept being described. ...