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Comprehensive Rust v2 (#1073) I've taken some work by @fw-immunant and others on the new organization of the course and condensed it into a form amenable to a text editor and some computational analysis. You can see the inputs in `course.py` but the interesting bits are the output: `outline.md` and `slides.md`. The idea is to break the course into more, smaller segments with exercises at the ends and breaks in between. So `outline.md` lists the segments, their duration, and sums those durations up per-day. It shows we're about an hour too long right now! There are more details of the segments in `slides.md`, or you can see mostly the same stuff in `course.py`. This now contains all of the content from the v1 course, ensuring both that we've covered everything and that we'll have somewhere to redirect every page. Fixes #1082. Fixes #1465. --------- Co-authored-by: Nicole LeGare <dlegare.1001@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Martin Geisler <mgeisler@google.com>
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# What is Rust?
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Rust is a new programming language which had its [1.0 release in 2015][1]:
Publish Comprehensive Rust 🦀
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Format all Markdown files with `dprint` (#1157) This is the result of running `dprint fmt` after removing `src/` from the list of excluded directories. This also reformats the Rust code: we might want to tweak this a bit in the future since some of the changes removes the hand-formatting. Of course, this formatting can be seen as a mis-feature, so maybe this is good overall. Thanks to mdbook-i18n-helpers 0.2, the POT file is nearly unchanged after this, meaning that all existing translations remain valid! A few messages were changed because of stray whitespace characters: msgid "" "Slices always borrow from another object. In this example, `a` has to remain " -"'alive' (in scope) for at least as long as our slice. " +"'alive' (in scope) for at least as long as our slice." msgstr "" The formatting is enforced in CI and we will have to see how annoying this is in practice for the many contributors. If it becomes annoying, we should look into fixing dprint/check#11 so that `dprint` can annotate the lines that need fixing directly, then I think we can consider more strict formatting checks. I added more customization to `rustfmt.toml`. This is to better emulate the dense style used in the course: - `max_width = 85` allows lines to take up the full width available in our code blocks (when taking margins and the line numbers into account). - `wrap_comments = true` ensures that we don't show very long comments in the code examples. I edited some comments to shorten them and avoid unnecessary line breaks — please trim other unnecessarily long comments when you see them! Remember we're writing code for slides :smile: - `use_small_heuristics = "Max"` allows for things like struct literals and if-statements to take up the full line width configured above. The formatting settings apply to all our Rust code right now — I think we could improve this with https://github.com/dprint/dprint/issues/711 which lets us add per-directory `dprint` configuration files. However, the `inherit: true` setting is not yet implemented (as far as I can tell), so a nested configuration file will have to copy most or all of the top-level file.
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- Rust is a statically compiled language in a similar role as C++
- `rustc` uses LLVM as its backend.
- Rust supports many
[platforms and architectures](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html):
- x86, ARM, WebAssembly, ...
- Linux, Mac, Windows, ...
- Rust is used for a wide range of devices:
- firmware and boot loaders,
- smart displays,
- mobile phones,
- desktops,
- servers.
Add support for speaker notes This implements a system for speaker notes via `details` elements and some JavaScript. The general idea is 1. You add speaker notes to each page by wrapping some Markdown code in `<details> … </details>`. This is a standard HTML element for, well extra details. Browsers will render the element with a toggle control for showing/hiding the content. 2. We inject JavaScript on every page which finds these speaker note elements. They’re styled slightly and we keep their open/closed state in a browser local storage. This ensures that you can keep them open/closed across page loads. 3. We add a link to the speaker notes which will open in a new tab. The URL is amended with `#speaker-notes-open`, which we detect in the new tab: we hide the other content in this case. Simultaneously, we hide the speaker notes in the original window. 4. When navigating to a new page, we signal this to the other window. We then navigate to the same page. The logic above kicks in and hides the right part of the content. This lets the users page through the course using either the regular window or the speaker notes — the result is the same and both windows stay in sync. Tested in both Chrome and Firefox. When using a popup speaker note window, the content loads more smoothly in Chrome, but it still works fine in Firefox. Fixes #53.
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<details>
Rust fits in the same area as C++:
Format all Markdown files with `dprint` (#1157) This is the result of running `dprint fmt` after removing `src/` from the list of excluded directories. This also reformats the Rust code: we might want to tweak this a bit in the future since some of the changes removes the hand-formatting. Of course, this formatting can be seen as a mis-feature, so maybe this is good overall. Thanks to mdbook-i18n-helpers 0.2, the POT file is nearly unchanged after this, meaning that all existing translations remain valid! A few messages were changed because of stray whitespace characters: msgid "" "Slices always borrow from another object. In this example, `a` has to remain " -"'alive' (in scope) for at least as long as our slice. " +"'alive' (in scope) for at least as long as our slice." msgstr "" The formatting is enforced in CI and we will have to see how annoying this is in practice for the many contributors. If it becomes annoying, we should look into fixing dprint/check#11 so that `dprint` can annotate the lines that need fixing directly, then I think we can consider more strict formatting checks. I added more customization to `rustfmt.toml`. This is to better emulate the dense style used in the course: - `max_width = 85` allows lines to take up the full width available in our code blocks (when taking margins and the line numbers into account). - `wrap_comments = true` ensures that we don't show very long comments in the code examples. I edited some comments to shorten them and avoid unnecessary line breaks — please trim other unnecessarily long comments when you see them! Remember we're writing code for slides :smile: - `use_small_heuristics = "Max"` allows for things like struct literals and if-statements to take up the full line width configured above. The formatting settings apply to all our Rust code right now — I think we could improve this with https://github.com/dprint/dprint/issues/711 which lets us add per-directory `dprint` configuration files. However, the `inherit: true` setting is not yet implemented (as far as I can tell), so a nested configuration file will have to copy most or all of the top-level file.
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- High flexibility.
- High level of control.
- Can be scaled down to very constrained devices such as microcontrollers.
- Has no runtime or garbage collection.
- Focuses on reliability and safety without sacrificing performance.
Add support for speaker notes This implements a system for speaker notes via `details` elements and some JavaScript. The general idea is 1. You add speaker notes to each page by wrapping some Markdown code in `<details> … </details>`. This is a standard HTML element for, well extra details. Browsers will render the element with a toggle control for showing/hiding the content. 2. We inject JavaScript on every page which finds these speaker note elements. They’re styled slightly and we keep their open/closed state in a browser local storage. This ensures that you can keep them open/closed across page loads. 3. We add a link to the speaker notes which will open in a new tab. The URL is amended with `#speaker-notes-open`, which we detect in the new tab: we hide the other content in this case. Simultaneously, we hide the speaker notes in the original window. 4. When navigating to a new page, we signal this to the other window. We then navigate to the same page. The logic above kicks in and hides the right part of the content. This lets the users page through the course using either the regular window or the speaker notes — the result is the same and both windows stay in sync. Tested in both Chrome and Firefox. When using a popup speaker note window, the content loads more smoothly in Chrome, but it still works fine in Firefox. Fixes #53.
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</details>
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[1]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html
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