noxasaxon

Learning Rust

Getting Started + Installation | Cheat Sheet

Table of Contents

1. How Do I Start Learning Rust?!
2. Ok, I Think I Know The Basics But How Do I Get Better?!
3. Rustlang Tooling
4. Helpful References Throughout Your Journey
5. The Rust Community
6. Recommended (but not free) Books & Courses

tgodfrey0

Rust Cheat Sheet

Variables & Mutability

Variables are immutable by default. This makes Rust safer and makes concurrency easier.
Immutable means once a value is bound to that variable, it cannot be changed.
For example:

fn main() {
 let x = 5;

0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

ityonemo

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

markbates

name: Release
on:
  release:
    types:
      - published

jobs:
  release:
    name: Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

timvisee

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

sohlich

# Go parameters
GOCMD=go
GOBUILD=$(GOCMD) build
GOCLEAN=$(GOCMD) clean
GOTEST=$(GOCMD) test
GOGET=$(GOCMD) get
BINARY_NAME=mybinary
BINARY_UNIX=$(BINARY_NAME)_unix

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

---

Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

ursuad

Kafka Topics

List existing topics

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --list

Describe a topic

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --topic mytopic

Purge a topic

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --alter --topic mytopic --config retention.ms=1000

... wait a minute ...

sosedoff

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "reflect"
)

// Name of the struct tag used in examples
const tagName = "validate"