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Rust's great error handling capability.
Handling errors is hard, but Rust’s error-handling capabilities give developers great tools for the job. Handling errors well is one of the key differences between great developers and average ones. Every developer desires solid, robust code that does its job and doesn’t crash – and is easy to maintain. The...
Programming
Rust, Lambda, and DynamoDB
As part of my journey to learn more about Rust development, I developed a Lambda service hosted on AWS that writes to a DynamoDB database and an associated Rust HTTP client. Along with Rust, I used Terraform to manage the deployment of the AWS resources. This article is the 4th...
Programming
Why Rust is so Great – Reason 1, The Borrow Checker
When I first tripped across Rust, it was through an article touting Rust’s election as the “most loved programming language” for several years in Stack overflow’s yearly survey (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted). The high-level language description was interesting – compiled, no virtual machine, efficient, fast, and safe. I’ll admit a bias towards compiled...