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A ten-week journey into Rust, from first steps to building tools for high-performance computing.

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Learning Rust

Week 1: A CS Major Discovers Rust

Hello! Welcome to the first installment in my 10-week developer deep dive into learning and using Rust! This series is the first (hopefully one of many)…

Week 2: Who Am I?

Welcome back to the second installment in my series documenting my journey with Rust development. In this post, I will add context to my journey as a…

Week 3: Learning Rust

Hello! This week, Week 3, I will dive into my plan for learning Rust, how it panned out, and give some pointers and resources for those also learning Rust!…

Week 4: WebAssembly

Welcome to Week 4 of the 10 week series on learning Rust! This week, I am going to talk about WebAssembly in the context of Rust and its use cases on the…

Week 5: What Am I Building?

Welcome to Week 5! I’m putting this short post out there because it would be great to see how my education in Rust is contributing to a real-world problem…

Week 6: The Egui Rust Framework

Welcome back to the sixth entry in this series. This week, I discuss Egui , the open-source GUI framework built in Rust that we use to build the Legion…

Week 7: Rust Tooling

This might be one of my favorite articles to write because I immediately fell in love with the Rust tooling ecosystem. TL;DR Imagine if yarn , make , and a…

Week 8: Rust Performance

When working with Rust during my 10-week research project, I was more than impressed with Rust in the performance department. From compilation time to…

Week 9: Limitations

Welcome to Week 9, the penultimate entry in this series (and normally the “calm before the storm” week at Stanford). In this article, I thought I would…

Week 10: Cheers to Rust!

Thanks for reading through this rollercoaster series documenting my learning process with Rust! I have to admit that Rust is now one of my favorite…

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