Learning Rust 01

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I’m trying to learn rust by rewriting one of my typescript libraries into rust. The purpose of the articles is that I record myself sorting things out and trying to understand stuff. They are mostly memos or notes that I serve myself. Though i’d be glad if you find it interesting, and even happier if you could point out errors and directions. Cheers.

The project I’m rewriting is silabacion. It divides Spanish words into syllables, and tries to provide as many phonetic features as possible. There isn’t much about it, just lots of string manipulation and pattern matching. It should be a good exercise to rewrite it with rust, and the result could be useful for those 5 people who process Spanish words with rust, so why not?

Learning Rust 02

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Today I found an implementation of is_vowel by BartMassey. It’s a much advanced implementation. I’ll try to analyze the code. Bear in mind that there is still much that I don’t know or understand.

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The Cargo.toml indicates that two external dependencies are used:

once_cell that provides cell-like types.
unicode-normalization that does what the name says.

What is a cell-like type? See std::cell. It’s “shareable mutable container”, and the rest is a blur. I think I’ll revisit it later.

Rust on Keyboard And Me

Learning Rust 01

Learning Rust 02

External dependencies Link to heading