This August In Rust

News and Announcements

Understanding rust through avl trees - Know AVL trees? Trying to learn Rust? This might be a good resource for you! Also, if you don’t know AVL trees, this will teach them to you anyway.
Await a minute, why bother? - Been wondering why language-level async/await syntax is such a big deal? This article discusses how it enables comprehensible error handling, native control flow, and borrow across yield points. Also, it’s written as crate documentation, which is pretty nifty.
Functional Programming Jargon in Rust - A helpful reference explaining common functional programming terms and demonstrates how they apply to Rust.
Diagnostics with Tracing - Writing an application with async/await? Check out the tracing crate for a better way to handle logging.
Using C Libraries in Rust - A practical guide to using bindgen.

We Rewrote Our IoT Platform in Rust and Got Away With It - The first in a five part series from the folks at Dwelo talking about how (and why) they rewrote their IoT platform in Rust from Python.

broot - An interactive directory overview and navigation tool for the terminal. Automatically uses gitignore settings to make navigating even large directorys easy.
topgrade - A command line utility to upgrade ALL THE THINGS at once!
std-async - A library designed to look and feel like the standard library, but designed around async/await from the start. Not an “official” project, but already in beta and aiming for a 1.0 release in September!
<_>::v::<_> - A fun little piece of Rust artwork.