Questions tagged [rust]
Rust is a systems programming language focused on three goals: safety, speed, and concurrency. It maintains these goals without needing a garbage collector, making it a useful language for a number of use cases other languages aren't good at: embedding in other languages, programs with specific space and time requirements, and writing low-level code, like device drivers and operating systems.
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Rust Library Design: Enum-Based vs TypeId-Based Plugin Registration for Trait Objects
I'm building a Rust library that supports multiple analysis reports, all implementing a common Report trait. I'm considering two design approaches and would appreciate a code review focusing on ...
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Async Rust UdpServer with Clean-Shutdown (using Tokio)
I'm new to Rust and trying to build an async Server.
The server should receive UDP packets, process them (which will include more network communication), and respond the result to the client.
I had ...
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Parsing HTTP headers from &HashMap<String, String> into http::HeaderMap
For context, I'm very new to Rust, and I'm trying to learn the best practices and nuances of it as I go.
I've written this small function that takes a ...
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`repeat_and_join` function for strings and chars in rust
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I'm trying to write a helper function for constructing repeating strings with a separator.
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Macros that won't compile in release builds
We all have put in debugging statements, like println!("Here"), when we're trying to diagnose an issue. Often, especially at work, I forget to remove ...
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Optimizing a Rust permutation chooser for the most subsequences
I had semi-recently asked a question (well a couple closely related questions) on math.stackexchange. The simplest question is phrased as follows: You are allowed to make 3 permutations of length n. ...
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Builder pattern in Rust
I tried to implement Builder pattern, a popular design pattern for constructing objects consisting of different components, in Rust.
Here is my attempt:
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Higher-kinded types in Rust
Also posted on Reddit.
As a small personal exercise, I'm trying to implement a notion of higher-kinded types in Rust using type-level defunctionalisation based on the "Lightweight higher-kinded ...
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Testing a user submitted python function
I am creating a website with coding questions. When a user submits a code for a question I use the contents of the question to create a python file and then I send it to the piston API for evaluation.
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Translating an image encoded as u32 to an array
I have a function in an embedded system which translates an image encoded in a 32-bit integer to 3x9 matrix (an array of arrays):
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Basic Rust server + client to handle future game logic
I made a really basic server and client in Rust using tokio for the server.
I would like to receive feedback on the (very limited) code I have so far, just to make sure I'm on track to follow Rust's ...
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Creating functions that send and receive atomic messages in Rust paradigm
I'm converting a library from C to Rust, and I want to see if this is the optimal way to implement network communication. This ...
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Fibonacci sequence generator
I have a piece of code that attempts to reduce the work and span in making a Fibonacci sequence. My approach is to parallelize the code as much as possible, along with doing matrix multiplication and ...
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File system regex searcher
This is my first Rust project (I'm primarily a C guy). I want to know if my code is properly idiomatic (Rusty?). Also, are there any inefficiencies?
The code defines an iterator (...
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Number guessing game in Rust
I am learning Rust and would like a review to make sure I am following best Rust practices before continuing. The user enters a number between 1 and 100 up to 6 times to guess the randomly-generated ...
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