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I'm still just in chapter 4 of the Rust Book but I wanted to practice what I learned so far so I made my first Rust application, a simple dice roller.
I had to search a bit to use the Clap crate for CLI arg parsing.
Still on my 120 day journey. Day 2
- Finished up chapter 2 of the Rust book
- Finished up the first section of the hack hack the box pen tester path.
The big take away for me today was realizing binding a variable doesn't connect a name to a concept like variableA = 100, but rather binds variableA the name to a memory location like 0x7fffe802c6e0 (feels dumb to think of it now).
I wish I'd read the following two articles right after reading the #rustbook.
They've been written in 2015 and have some outdated bits. But still bring a lot of value to an overall understanding of #rustlang
The first article covers "two pillars of Rust's design:
- Memory safety without garbage collection
- Concurrency without data races"
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.html
The second article explores "the third pillar
- Abstraction without overhead"
Whenever we write any piece of code, we rely on our mental models. We rely on our mental model of the hardware, and map the code we write with hypothetical actions that would be performed by the hardware that is our mental model. Obviously our mental model of the hardware is just that, a Model. It does not correspond to any actual hardware, it does not include weird edge cases that might exist on real hardware, it might include operations that might not exist on real hardware. Our mental mode...
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You probably already know this, but Chapter 4 of the #rustBook discusses ownership.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-00-understanding-ownership.html
Not that I'm an expert; I'm only on chapter 8.
@wizzwizz4 Well spotted! That's a trivial example from the #RustBook.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-02-references-and-borrowing.html#references-and-borrowing
I just wanted to make a joke with that Space Odyssey reference
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