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October 08, 2018

Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust - Part 3: Concurrency & Parallelism

This is the third post of Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust series. We will look into Rust’s concurrency support. I intend to provide a guide for the Rust language and try to keep things within the safe Rust realm. We will be looking at the concurrency primitives that are in the Rust standard library. Please keep in mind that there are popular libraries that provide other efficient and convenient concurrency primitives.

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April 03, 2018

Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust - Part 2: Test Driven Development

This is the second post of Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust series. We will write some Rust code with tests. In fact we will be practising Test Driven Design.

  1. We will start by writing a unit test and make sure it fails.
  2. We will write the code to make the test pass. Just enough code, nothing more.
  3. If there are any opportunities, We will refactor our code.

Rinse and repeat.

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November 28, 2017

Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust - Part 1: Ownership & Mutability

Rust has excellent documentation and these posts are not meant to replace the official documentation. I strongly suggest going through the links below, if you have not already done so, before/after/while reading these posts:

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November 07, 2017

How to Install Rust on Debian Without Sudo

Note

Since I have written this post rustup has evolved and now it does not require sudo. Please see the latest documentation.

Rust has been around for a while but I have just recently found the opportunity to study it. It has some unique and powerful ideas and I intend to experiment further. This post summarizes the steps I have followed to install Rust toolchain on my Debian Stretch machine without admin rights[1].

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November 01, 2017

Presentation: Building a Simple DSL in Clojure

I did a short presentation for Singapore Clojure Meetup yesterday. You can find the slides here.