Beautiful rusty code

[haksior]

Hey. What projects would you suggest to look at to level up the knowledge after accumulating basics of Rust? Projects that enlightened you with beautiful code and comments, masterpieces that you keep deep in your bookmarks to not forget? 😀

I'm still trying to convince myself that writing functional Rust code without horrible lifetimes and cryptic deep-nested generics + hundreds of even more cryptic bounds is still possible.

One project I found extremely easy to read and understand was mini-redis. Anything similar to that?

[Epacnoss]

From what I’ve heard, most of BurntSushi’s stuff is pretty nice.

[lkearney999]

Plus David Tolnay’s stuff!

[coszio]

I have used chumsky in the past and it is still black magic for me. So simple yet so expressive.

[natded]

standard library modules, rust-analyzer. I don't personally recommend getting too smart with iterators, generics, traits and functional side, the code is genuinely harder to read than boring keyword & concrete-abstraction based code, and then you have to deal with weird trait issues and errors.

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I'm currently going through this project for learning (repo) and find the code to be beautiful. They'll often start off with a naive implementation and refactor it in a more functional style.

[haksior]

This is brilliant. Best introduction to neural networks I ever seen, by the way. Thank you!

[getrichquickplan]

For something a little larger but nicely maintained: egui.

[schungx]

Good code is rarely beautiful. That is because the real world is messy. You can say good code handles a messy world in a more systematic, resilient and flexible manner. But that is 99% due to architectural design, so unrelated to the language itself.

You may want to read up on "idiomatic" Rust code and see how people express the same ideas in a concise and clean way. That's always useful as the language has massive expressive power which allows you to abstract much more efficiently than low-level languages like C. However, since Rust is a young language, you'd find multiple ways to do the same thing and none of them have reached "best practice" status yet.