The Rust programming language is one of the most interesting and exciting languages in active development today, at least according to this Grumpy Guy. I’ve been dabbling with it for a number of years now, and am trying to get it in place at $COMPANY to see what we can do with it there.

While it can be a little tricky to learn, it makes you think about the way you structure your code, which in turn leads to a better overall design1 and level of code quality in your project.

Currently rocking CLion as my weapon of choice for Rust dev, there’s still a couple of small issues in Rust Analyzer that stop me from using it in VSCode.

Crates

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