David BeazleyApr 17, 2025

About a year ago, I started putting together a course to work through the first part of Crafting Interpreters in Rust. Having now done that a few times, I feel like my Rust skills have improved a LOT and I'm rather enjoying it.

I got to thinking about how to take it further. Then a little voice said "why not just teach everything in Rust all summer?" Yeah. So, I'm doing that.

https://dabeaz.com/summer.html

Show threadDavid BeazleyApr 17, 2025
Meanwhile, I'm working on the Ray Tracer project which is one of the first Rust things I coded about 8 years ago. It's interesting coming back to that after the Crafting Interpreters journey. Let's just say that it's significantly easier this time around.
Show threadDavid BeazleyApr 18, 2025
Ok, back to the ray tracer project for the day. Let's do some metal...
Show threadDavid BeazleyApr 18, 2025
Sweet. It works! About 700 lines of Rust spread across 10 files--adapted from the original material presented in C++. This could be you. (https://dabeaz.com/raytrace.html).
Show threadDavid BeazleyApr 18, 2025
I should add that I continued my Rust learning discipline of using no IDE, no AI, and no autocomplete. I did have to search for a few things on math functions and random numbers.
Show threadShae Erisson
@dabeaz I enjoy rust-analyzer very much
Apr 18, 2025 at 10:35pmWeb