[GTALUG] Rust intro

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 12:07 PM Tom Low-Shang via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:05:13AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> wrote:
> > I don't know anything about General Assembly but they are hosting a
> > "Practical Introduction to Rust"
> ...
> >
> > It is given by a Blad Filippov of Mozilla
> >
> > Preparation:
> >
> >       "Bring a laptop with a code editor installed. Bonus points for
> >       installing the Rust toolchain: https://rustup.rs/"
> >
> > I'm going to go.  I assume that the text editor I use qualifies as a
> code
> > editor.
>
> I'm interested in your thoughts on Rust if you attended the talk.
>
> I'm currently learning Rust the old fashioned hacker way (from books and
> other people's code :)). My biggest mistake was trying to use Rust with
> SDL2 to display some graphics. My head still hurts from banging it into
> a wall called 'lifetimes'.  :)
>
> (Sorry for the topic necromancy. :))
>

I just saw a presentation on a somewhat C-centric approach...

http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/

Learning Rust the "Dangerous Way", starting with how to do C-like things,
and then draw back towards "rustacean" ways.

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