Friday, May 23, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 7: data types

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In this post I'll discuss Rust's data types. These are roughly equivalent to classes, structs, and enums in C++. One difference wit...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 6: Rc, Gc, and * pointers

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So far we've covered unique and borrowed pointers. Unique pointers are very similar to the new std::unique_ptr in C++ and borrowed refe...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 5: borrowed references

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In the last post I introduced unique pointers. This time I will talk about another kind of pointer which is much more common in most Rust p...
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Saturday, May 03, 2014

A thought on language design

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Language designers often aim to make their languages simpler, more elegant, or smaller. If we are doing practical language design (as oppos...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 4: unique pointers

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Rust is a systems language and therefore must give you raw access to memory. It does this (as in C++) via pointers. Pointers are one area w...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - part 3: primitive types and operators

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Rust has pretty much the same arithmetic and logical operators as C++. `bool` is the same in both languages (as are the `true` and `false` ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Formatting change

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Quick note - yes, I have changed the formatting on my blog - hope you like it!

Rust for C++ programmers - part 2: control flow

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If The `if` statement is pretty much the same in Rust as C++. One difference is that the braces are mandatory, but brackets around the ...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Rust for C++ programmers - an intermission - why Rust

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I realise that in terms of learning Rust, I had jumped straight to the 'how' and skipped the 'why'. I guess I am in enough ...
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Rust for C++ programmers - part 1: Hello world

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This is the first in a series of blog posts (none written yet) which aim to help experienced C++ programmers learn Rust. Expect updates to ...
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