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[AI summary] A Ruby developer explains the unique challenges of mastering Rust's mandatory error handling by comparing it to learning a foreign language with distinct vocabulary for concepts like success and failure.
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Since Rust is a language without exceptions, errors are signaled by returning a Result: an enum that denotes either the function's successful return value, or information about the error. Thi...
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Back in 2013, I started a series of posts on programming languages I found interesting. One of the languages I wanted to write about at that time was Rust. As often happens, life got in the way, and it's only now that I'm coming round to a long overdue post. This is one of a series of posts on programming languages and you can read more about thathere.
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Today I've played around with Zig, the new, hip (is it hip?) programming language. I find it pretty neat. I'm going to walk you (and myself) through my first, very short, piece of code. Below you can see the entirety of it. It basically allocates a 2MB buffer and reads a file into it... Yep, not particularly impressive, but this is a judgment free, learning zone, ok?! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 const std = @import("std"); const warn = @import("std").
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