It is nasty code! I started refactoring before I hit some struct-alignment bugs (fixed on later Rust versions): https://github.com/tcr/rust-todomvc/blob/tcr-wip/src/main.rs

The parent navigation needs to be replaced by a jQuery-like .ancestors() macro.

This was an MVP so I wasn't focused on code quality over features; but I'm also learning Rust for the first time, so it came out less than impressive :)

  > Why define functions as variables?

I'm not sure what you mean here, exactly.

  > Why .parent().unwrap().parent().unwrap()?

I'm not mega familiar with the code, but using a low-level binding to something else that has nulls often means a lot of Option, which means a lot of unwrapping. A nicer library could probably get rid of some of this.

>which means a lot of unwrapping

     .unwrap()

In rust is generally a bad pattern to use. Its basically short hand for

    let o :Option< u64 >;

    let value :u64 = match o {
                        Some( t ) => t,
                        None => panic!()
                     };

So if you don't met the condition, you explode. When ever you see .unwrap() in Rust just mentally switch it for /TODO add error handling */

Yeah, I was just using "unwrapping" as a more general term for "extract the T out."

We almost changed 'unwrap' to 'assert', but people found it a bit too weird.

>We almost changed 'unwrap' to 'assert', but people found it a bit too weird.

That is weird. idk I guess its already sort of being done, you're more or less asserting Option::Some( _ ) is the value.

I wonder if it would looks a bit nicer with .jsx support.

I can't wait for a JSX crate on Cargo.