So, the day has finally arrived!
If you haven’t lived under a rock for the past years, you’ve probably heard of Rust, a moderately recent programming language developed inside Mozilla Research in the late 2000s.
If you don’t, it will be impossible to summarize it in a few words, but let’s say that is a compiled language, focused on high performance (ideally comparable to those of C++) and memory safety. It is constantly increasing in popularity, named the third-most-loved programming language in the 2015 Stack Overflow annual survey and there a lot of experiments going on to port existing software to Rust (e.g. Tor, originally in C, is experimenting porting to Rust).
So, what does that have to do with me?
Well, if you know me, you know that I’m always up for two things: challenges, and learning new stuff.
This seems like a perfect chance for me, then. For a while I’ve been considering trying to expand my knowledge into programming languages unknown to me… I’ve been undecided between Haskell and Rust for a while, and just lately I finally decided to go for the latter!
How will I do it?
I’m not a big fan of textbooks, tutorials, and such.
I prefer to get dirty with my hands in the code, get mad when things don’t work, and then finally solve the problem.
So, you probably remember about the Advent Of Code 2018, right? Then one I solved entirely in C++ with much sweat and blood?
Well, I decided to tackle (most of) it again, this time in Rust, to prepare for AoC 2019!
I started recently and, at the moment of writing this post, I just completed Day 1 and Day 2: it has already been hard and difficult, but I enjoyed every moment of it and can’t wait to try Day3!.
As usual, I will publish all my code on Github, on this repository. And of course, the next few posts on this blog will be focused on my journey into Rust, covering the most interesting parts of the language that I get to discover during it.
Let the journey begin!
