How to learn Rust by own tiny applications?

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  • pixels

    A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀

  • One small project I really liked implementing when learning rust was https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html . I used https://github.com/parasyte/pixels to render the pixels.

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

  • A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

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  • arewegameyet

    The repository for https://arewegameyet.rs

  • Game dev? (arewegameyet.rs)

  • cw

    A Rust wc clone (by Freaky)

  • A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

  • lsd

    The next gen ls command

  • A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

  • ripgrep

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

  • A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

  • diskonaut

    Terminal disk space navigator 🔭

  • A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • gping

    Ping, but with a graph

  • A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

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