Today I started reading Command Line Applications in Rust Even though I have not finished reading “the book”, I am (by now) familiar with enough rust code that reading this book was kinda refreshing. Few important things I picked up : {:?} in println! is called debug representation (quite useful for .. debugging 😄) Custom data types can add support for {:?} for debugging and logging, one needs to add a #[derive(Debug) above their definition.
Continue Reading »Technically this may be more like day 8 or 9, cause I did read some stuff from the rust book in last few days, and made note here Nothing improves your understanding better than doing – Me 😄 I was trying accessing the individual fields in tuple struct using dot notation via the index Since the rust book does not have an example of it, I used rust playground (Awesome resource BTW) and just printed stuff.
Continue Reading »When I started reading about Ownership, I was thinking I have done C. I understand memory But Rust book explains : If you are familiar with systems programming, you might think of memory at a low level like “memory is an array of bytes” or “memory is the pointers I get back from malloc”. .. The low-level model is too concrete to explain how Rust works. Rust does not allow you to interpret memory as an array of bytes, for instance.
Continue Reading »I wrote about logseq almost two years ago and then I think when I switched job, I stopped using logseq. When I updated macOS, I forgot to install it, and forgot about it overall (I started using denote - in Emacs for some time) Recently when I started using obsidian while trying l learn more about it, I came across logseq again. I tried it again (after 2 years) I spent time learning basics (again)
Continue Reading »Yesterday, I was trying to access Bard API via Rust The task is WIP because : I’m still learning Rust (Although on Day 5 I was able to access a URL from rust code) I didn’t know how to access Bard API It started with a Youtube video that: Uses python code which uses Bard library Not sure if it is official one or third party one In either case it won’t be directly useful in rust code Uses a hack to get session cookie from browser (which will expire sooner or later) At that time, I didn’t know whether Google has made Bard API accessible via an API
Continue Reading »I want to access Bard API via Rust, but it will take some time. Here are the things I did today. First, I tried (successfully) to access an URL via Rust code. ✅ I used the reqwest module. I just added this dependency in my Cargo.toml and (like in other languages) the dependency hell was let loose 😄 67 other modules were added to the Cargo.lock! I also learnt to use global variables in Rust.
Continue Reading »Due to death in my family, “100 days of Rust” is halted. I’ll continue it soon.
Started with (optional) assignment at the end of “Programming Concept” chapter : Convert temperature between Celsius and Fahreinheit. 1 Since the algorithm itself is not part of the learning the language, I asked Google Bard about the formula. It was nice working on some code after a while (Aside from work, I mean) Once again, I realized that compiler is very helpful 😍 I started simple. Breaking down functionality into smaller functions.
Continue Reading »Today I finished Functions and Control Flow etc. While these are not new “concepts” for me, one always learns something new when learning a new language. Two things I learnt: I liked the fact that rust does not evaluate anything other than boolean as truthy like both python and ruby loop can have labels, and can be used with break and continue to indicate where should the execution continue
Today I started with Data Types While most of it is intuitive, it is useful to go over the documentation. e.g. For tuple, I had expected that to access specific index, syntax would be mytuple[0]. mytuple.0 was not I had expected. I also tried to print the tuple. In the process, I learnt about pretty printing only from the compiler errors. The compiler errors are so descriptive 😍 Here is the code in case you are interested
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