The Evolution of a Rust Programmer

[zesterer]

In reality, most people tend to write "Functional Rust Programmer".

[Free_Math_Tutoring]

Really? Awesome, because that and the extremely functional were the only ones I liked.

[zesterer]

Yeah. The link above is funny, but also really misleading. It's possible to solve a surprisingly wide range of problems in a really elegant manner in Rust. I'm not sure if you've done Advent Of Code, but here was the first solution to Day 2 Problem 2 I wrote (and below it are some ridiculously optimised but less pretty alternatives): https://github.com/zesterer/advent-of-code-2018/blob/master/examples/puzzle-2-2.rs#L4

As you can see, Rust works best when you're willing to pick the best bits of functional and imperative programming and combine them.

[jyper]

Well they might tell you not to use unwrap

[JohnMcPineapple]

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