On Rust⌗

C⌗

Rust has quickly become one of my favourite programming languages to use. Even though I have not used it at work or at any serious projects yet I have finished a few online courses on it and I must say I’m quite impressed.

In University we mainly used two programming languages: Java and C. I personally think that C should be number one since my degree focused on the hardware side of things, but I digress. I fondly remember my first programming steps with C. The teacher was one of the best I ever had and made my interesting in the low-level side of computing grow quite a bit.

Since then and throughout University we used C in both of our Operating Systems classes and when studying Embedded Systems and Robotics and even though I didn’t use it all that much outside those courses, I had a soft spot for it.

After finishing University I haven’t had the chance to use it at all and I would have to re-learn many things about it. This is where Rust comes into play.

Rusty memories⌗

As I mentioned briefly, I have finished a couple of courses on Rust recently (see my Linkdin if you are interested) and I enjoyed the process of learning something new, but also the flashbacks I got from back when I used C. It was a very “hands on” experience: learning about borrowing and lifetimes and why they were needed, fighting with the compiler and reducing my time debugging runtime errors (I’m looking at you, Python). It felt great.

Rusty future⌗

I can’t of course predict the future so I can’t tell you what I will do next week, but I want to keep on learning this language on my free time. I have started “100-exercises-to-learn-rust”, even though they seem to be pretty simple. The last couple of modules however… They are looking interesting indeed. After that, who knows. Maybe I will try to write some dumb terminal app or something with GTK4, but I should keep at it to not forget anything I have learned so far. I will try to update this blog once I have something interesting to say.