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I know that I should pick a simple topic to get me started when learning a new language, but I can’t control my desire to create things. I don’t like to create build-and-throw-away things, either. They should be useful things (at least to me)! So, to learn Rust I started building an interpreter following Lisperator.net’s tutorial.
I just found out 📎 Clippy, which I think is kinda like👮♂️ Rubocop for Rust, so I hope it will help me to write better Rust code.
As I didn’t have much time to actually code Rust, I spent a lot of time reading about it. Regarding this, Rust is the language with best learning tools I’ve seen to this day! Not only it has a book (The Book, I must say 😅) that guides you in the first steps to know the language and its unique features, but Rust also has a Learn by Example book!
I’ll also make a post comparing Rust with Crystal showing my experience with both languages.
I plan to keep writing my interpreter in Rust to learn more about this language. One thing I didn’t explore yet is testing. Since I’m a big fan of TDD I hope Rust has a good test support. I have an interest in digging a bit in game development with the Bevy game engine.