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I took this class when Professor Evans originally taught it in 2014(?), and really enjoyed it. Just a note that Rust (the language) has changed significantly in
by huntaub 3y ago
I took this class when Professor Evans originally taught it in 2014(?), and really enjoyed it. Just a note that Rust (the language) has changed significantly in the past 9 years, and many of these code examples will likely not run today with a newly installed version of rust.
More college courses should lean-forward to teach skills that are on the forefront of industry adoption. Learning about Rust and getting familiar with it in 2014 was incredibly helpful with my organization (Amazon) starting to adopt Rust for memory-critical applications in the late teens.
- aedrax 3y agoI thought rust was supposed to be backwards compatible?
- Danidada 3y agoBut was Rust on the forefront of industry adoption in 2014? It seems it wasn't even officially released until 2015 according to Wikipedia and the only known project that I'm aware of that was using Rust back then was Mozilla's Servo which is (semi?) dead. Similar languages back then that could have replaced Rust and had similar potential were Nim and D and both of them failed to get a significant industry adoption
- steveklabnik 3y agoThe link I posted below contains commentary on why they chose Rust over various other languages. There were other production users of rust in 2014, notably Dropbox and a bunch of cryptocurrency stuff. But not very many, it’s true. A lot of folks waited until 2015 to start building on Rust after it stabilized.