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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by paxys on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:18PM (#36051550)
I find that a lot of people just pick wrong kinds of projects to dig their teeth into Rust with. It is a systems programming language. If you don't know much about it and set out to build a website, things are inevitably going to go south.
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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by echelon on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:54PM (#36051866)
Actix and Axum are so easy. They're a drop in replacement for Golang or Flask.

I'd encourage people to start their Rust journey with little web services.

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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by freeopinion on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:17PM (#36052041)
One of my first projects involved linked lists. Oh boy was that the right wrong project to start with.

I've never written linked lists the same way in other languages since.

Rust made me better in languages that aren't Rust.

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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by yeck on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:35PM (#36052554)
Hah, yes. I thought I'd get started with Rust going through building some basic data structures. Linked lists were near the top of my list so I didn't get very far with that first approach XD
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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by tialaramex on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:44PM (#36052601)
If you really meant this, and you ever want to learn Rust, you could do worse than begin with Aria's "Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists"

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

You can skip her explanation of why the Linked List is a bad first data structure, and get straight to doing, but if you have no idea why a very experienced programmer would think this data structure is terrible (so terrible she tried but failed to have it removed from Rust's Standard Library before Rust 1.0) you should read her whole PSA too.

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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by yeck on Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:23AM (#36151422)
I didn't end my Rust learning with that. I did a bit of a deep dive into articles about linked lists in Rust out of curiosity before pivoting to more fruitful projects. My favourite "project" being last year's Advent of Code.
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Re:Comprehensive Rust: course used by the Android team at Go... by olvy0 on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:34AM (#36055470)
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