[GTALUG] Rust intro

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Tom Low-Shang via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| I'm interested in your thoughts on Rust if you attended the talk.

The talk was mostly a guided creation of a program.  So I don't think
that it answered any of your questions.

| 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'.  :)

The whole idea of borrowing etc. is fundamental to Rust and how it
ensures safety.  Without garbage collection.  If you don't like or
understand this approach, Rust isn't useful.