Learning Rust by accident
summary
Starts from curiosity about WebAssembly and moves into concrete bets: follows rustlings exercises, builds a backtracking Sudoku as a GTK desktop app using recursion and unit tests, and uses macros to simplify file I/O. Tooling matters — rust-analyzer and macros make the IDE surface feel like a tutor. Faces the borrow checker and GTK’s C bridge (Cell) and resolves ownership issues; the Sudoku runs and teaches more than just syntax. Also experiments with generative art and gains fluency fast.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:35About me
- 2:18What is Rust
- 4:09Leaving Rust
- 4:41Learning Rust
- 6:57Why Rust
- 7:40Rust concepts
- 8:58Rust for fun
- 10:47Rust analyzer
- 12:28sudoku
- 15:00I already know Rust
- 16:00Rust is my friend
- 19:06Learning by Doing
- 19:38Learning Rust by accident
- 21:32Learning Rust for fun
- 22:08Any project is good
- 22:49Conclusion
- 23:53Questions
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