Sysart Tech Talk: Rust

Material for Sysart internal tech talk held in Finnish on 2021-06-02.

Getting started with Rust

• Installing Rust
• VSCode plugins Rust and rust-analyzer
• Rust Book, the first chapters provide a good introduction to the language
• Rust by Example
• Rustlings contains small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
• Rust and WebAssembly is an approachable book for getting into writing wasm

Slides

Slides are in Finnish.

Start a spectacle presentation at http://localhost:3000/ with

cd slides
npx spectacle-cli -s slides.md

Simple example

Uses unwrap for error handling.

$ cd code-simple
$ cargo run

Refactored example

Error handling refactored to using a custom error type. This blog post provides a detailed description of the approach.

$ cd code-refactored
$ cargo run