I always enjoy Amos' writing, he does a great job of walking through topics in depth and explaining each step of the way. It looks like he's starting a new series to work through all of this year's Advent of Code problems, which will probably be a good read for people interested in Rust (whether you already have experience with it or not).

Only the first day is up so far, but the overall series page is here, and individual links:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4
• Day 5
• Day 6
• Day 7
• Day 8
• Day 9
• Day 10
• Day 11

I'll update this post with new links as the new parts come out, and possibly bump it occasionally.

Last semester, I took a grad class where I had a project to optimize across a very high dimensional space (many hundreds if not thousands).

I implemented the algorithm using numpy, and I suppose it was functional, but it took to long. My algorithm was never really able to converge to a good solution. I got maybe 2 orders of magnitude speedup by numba-ing the critical parts, but it still was awefully slow.

Some of my classmates used C. I know C, its just...it's dated. I knew that for what I wanted to do, I didn't want to gdb all the time and deal with allocating and deallocating memory manually, and remember whether it was const int * or int const *.

Rust seems to be catching on for systems programming. From what I have seen, I like how it is the language specification (and the compiler) that prevents you from doing something stupid, rather than just getting a seg fault and wonder what' going on.

Does anyone have experience with rust? What do you use it for? What do you like? Dislike? Did it replace use of another language or tool?

I'm just starting to get into the ecosystem by going through the Book of Rust, and then maybe playing with Parity. Just wondering if anyone else has been through this yet and is up for some conversation!