Programming and other topics by Peter Cardwell-Gardner
Being embedded on a large Rust team, I've witnessed many experienced programmers' first touch points with Rust (myself included). From this vantage point, a few common stumbling blocks stand out: Rust's memory model is the obvious one. Being novel and unique, it deservedly gets a lot of airtime. However, if you've only spent your time in imperative languages (i.e. the ones that usually come with a…
Rust, not related to the video game also called Rust, is a promising systems programming language with novel features ideally suited for game development. Exposure and awareness within the game developer community, however, remains limited. In this post, I provide a gentle introduction to Rust and attempt to justify its place on your radar.
Herein I share an experienced developer's first foray into a real-world Rust project. It focuses closely on the type system, and the key insights I needed to begin "thinking in Rust". Written for those getting to grips with the language, it will be especially useful if your background isn't functional programming.
In this part 1 of 2 posts, I share the process of a heartwarming maker project built on top of Raspberry Pi and Rust. It's more a story than a how-to guide, but provides an interesting chronology of problems encountered. In part 2 I'll be getting technical and discussing Rust in-depth. Source code for this project can be found on Github
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