A straightforward tutorial on how to setup a Rust based web app with actix and basic templating functionalities. A useless endeavour in post GPT era. I assure you all of this is thought out and planned by a human who wasted some human hours on this. The tools for the trade Actix : Web framework for Rust Tera : Templating engine that is one to one copy of Jinja Templating engine Nginx : HTTP Server Cargo....
At it’s core Shells are just interactive user interface that exposes OS tools and services. This blog is a introduction to Nushell , a cross-platform shell written in Rust . We already have had fair share of shells like Bash, Zsh, Fish etc. Why do we need yet another shell? All existing shells have one thing in common, They all treat as if everything is a text. Enter Nushell where Everything is a structured data....
Was Rust built to be a scripting language? the types which you can use for crawling web, extracting links, sending mails etc. Generally stuff that serve single functionality with limited scope. Python fits into that domain perfectly and it is pleasant to write scripts in python. But what about Rust? The language doesn’t even come with a garbage collector, and you might as well fight its borrow checker until it deems your code is memory safe....
This post tries to reason why Rust might be choice for new projects instead of C and C++. This is a bold statement and there is a need to discuss the types of projects where a comparision is being made. i.e Systems Programming. Going back a bit further, and taking a look at the motivation for these languages shines a beam of light about the main goal of these languages....
This post discusses how to install rust on linux. Well installation process is pretty simple but sometimes minimal distribution like Arch maynot bundle the linker and rustup (a tool used to install and manage rust installation) also doesn’t include linker Build Essential contains Linker Rust doesn’t include linker (which is required for generating execuatable ) on its installer. To install the linker, first check the type of distro you have...