Learn Rust

By making a CLI todo app

But First...Who Am I?

Technical Team Lead at Health Scholars

Worked in the IT industry for over 14 years

Including working at NASA as a systems administrator

Live-coding projects and fun visualizations on Twitch.tv

Objectives

• Decide if you want to lean into Rust
• Be inspired to learn and create something in Rust

What is Rust?

• General purpose programming language
• No longer billed as a systems programming language
• Strongly Typed
• Great community
• Modern tools

Why Rust?

• Fun to use*
• Capable of doing almost everything
• Possible being a big language in the future
• A great challenge
• First class citizens (testing, documentation, etc.)

The Project

Live Coding

• As a doer, I want to see all my tasks
• As a doer, I want to add a new task
• As a doer, I want to mark a task as completed
• As a doer, I want to delete a task

Resources for Learning Rust

• The book
• A half-hour to learn rust article
• A tour of Rust
• Discord

Questions

Where to find me

• https://twitch.tv/brookzerker
• https://twitter.com/brooks_patton
• https://github.com/brookspatton