{"id":886,"date":"2022-12-18T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T16:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2022-12-18T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:07:03","slug":"rust-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martyndavis.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Rust Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been having a lot of fun recently learning Rust. It’s a breath of fresh air in so many ways compared to C++: for instance the standardised package management, a consistent way of building projects, and simple-to-add unit tests. These are in addition to the much-touted safer memory management. We won’t be giving up with C++ at work, but we will be using Rust for several new projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a learning exercise, I’ve re-written a game I first wrote for the ZX-Spectrum forty years ago, called Xtarda Rescue<\/a>. It’s not the cleanest code – there was a lot of learning along the way, and I’d definitely refactor parts of it if I had the time, but it plays really well and, while I tried to keep it retro, it’s far more advanced than the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also wrote probably about the millionth version of Conway’s Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s also a tiny little CLI utility called Temperature<\/a> I’ve just created, which is a good example of how to do async calls, in this case to a couple of REST APIs, one for IP-based geolocation (so not very accurate!) and then, given that location, a call to get localised weather information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m definitely looking forward to continuing learning more Rust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having a lot of fun recently learning Rust. It’s a breath of fresh air in so many ways compared to C++: for instance the standardised package management, a consistent way of building projects, and simple-to-add unit tests. These are in addition to the much-touted safer memory management. We won’t be giving up with … <\/p>\n

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