Cranston's Life - Rust and More Rust

I am always so EXCITED when I LEARN of a new project that is using Rust!

That has HAPPENED today!

I have just LEARNED of Nushell 0.13.0.

What IS nushell is what I asked.

The nushell web site INFORMS us this: "A new type of shell." and "The goal of this project is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development."

There are also more INFORMATION about nushell.

But when I look at the nushell source code I see SO MUCH Rust source code!

Nushell is a project that I think I must WATCH closely!

I have read many reviews of the Rust programming language and they almost all I think have focused on the TECHNICAL abilities of Rust.

But I have also just read is rust fun? and it is a DIFFERENT kind of review of the Rust programming language.

It is focused on the FUNNESS of Rust.

That is to say, is or is not Rust a fun programming language to use, from the point of view of a HOBBYIST programmer?

After I have read this review I am thinking that it does not find Rust to be a FUN programming language!

The act is described like "programming in rust feels a lot like pulling teeth" which makes me think that the author of that review does NOT find Rust to be fun!

It also give an example of how complex Rust code could get CHAOTIC and the code can be CONFUSING.

It also says that Rust's borrow checker is not fun either but does not go into more details, although I think I understand WHY!

Reading reviews of Rust and other programming languages is something I do WHENEVER I can and this review about the funness of Rust is different from many of the other reviews that I have read!

One of my most FAVORITE times of the year is when the results of the Rust Survey are made available to us all!

It is that time of the year again, and the Rust Survey 2019 results are OUT!

What an ACCOMPLISHMENT!

There were almost 4,000 RESPONSES received!

I am not going to repeat the findings but there is a lot of INSIGHT in these results and I am sure that the Rust teams will take this feedback seriously.

There are more discussions too.

To all of those who made this survey possible, GOOD JOB!

Error handling in any programming language is such an IMPORTANT topic to understand and master.

Rust is NO exception!

Tyler Neely in Error Handling in a Correctness-Critical Rust Project gives us some THOUGHTS about error handling when using Rust, and some example situations.

I must STUDY this more, because error handling is just so important!

Python is a very popular programming language and MANY people like to use it.

Rust is another programming language that is getting MORE popular.

I think that to combine them is something that would be MAGICAL for people who want to use both Python and Rust at the same time!

Mara Bos explains to us in the articles Writing Python inside your Rust code — Part 1 and Writing Python inside your Rust code — Part 1A one way of putting Python code INSIDE of Rust code!

The articles show this can be a very CHALLENGING thing to do!

I must STUDY these techniques more, because I think doing so will improve my knowledge of Rust macros.