Friday Hacks: Rust and the developer experience

About Friday Hacks

Friday Hacks is an informal event that takes place on most Fridays at 1pm, at the Valuemotive office.

Valuemotive has a culture of sharing interesting ideas. Our employees are curious, which leads to ad hoc exchanges. Folks will test the validity of their ideas, ask for feedback on complicated things and discuss their work with others.

We play with an interesting piece of tech and have a discussion about it with an expert present. We often weight on pros and cons of using the tech at work. We always learn something new! You are looking at a demo/boilerplate/guide that was prepared in advance to support the ’Hack.

Examples of previous Friday Hacks: AWS Lambda + Serverless framework, Apache Airflow, Rust, Elm.

Cargo features

Installing rustup

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Windows installer

Rustup doc

rustup doc

Toolchains

Default toolchain is stable. To try nightly:

rustup install nightly

Code formatting and static analysis

rustup component add clippy

rustup component add rustfmt

Cargo commands

Project scaffolding

Binary, or and "app" (--bin implied)

cargo new

Library

cargo new --lib

Dependency management

Crates.io

NPM-like commands as a plugin

cargo install cargo-edit

Let's talk about optional features

Offline docs

cargo doc

Editors and language server

Language server spec and Rust

Rust RLS

VS Code extension

Rust language features

See language_features subfolder in this repo