what is rust?

speed
saftey
cargo (pip but for rust)
Links to the rust book (the documentation for rust is literally an ebook)

Toolings

Introduction

if statements
functions
variables
loops

Some basic questions like "how would u make variable x, how would u make a function named x" and so on

Expressions

rust return statements (they're super weird)
What is an expression?

Results object

If something can fail in Rust, you HAVE to deal with the exception.

FOr example

# python
f = open("file.txt", 'r')

But in Rust, you cannot open a file unless you write an exception for if that file does not exist.

In Rust, everything that can fail returns a object. This means that you're never going to encounter an unexpected "file not found" or similar, because everything is accounted for.

Borrow checker

Variables not in scope are killed. In Python, I think you can do:

if y = 6:
    x = 3
else:
    x = 9

But in Rust, the borrow checker will kill X the second the if is over. You cannot create variables inside a scope and use them out fo the scope.

You can however, do this

let x = if y == 6 {3} else {9}

This is a security feature, the borrow checker stops you from doing silly things with variables -- everything is either in scope or it's killed off.

Multi-threading

Rayon
Turning a for loop into multi-threaded with one word (into_iter -> into_para_iter)

Async

Basic async 101
Making a web server with async rust and how rust ensures saftey with async

Packaging

Packaging your rust app
Okay not security related but it's really cool it's just 1 command rust publish

TODO

Rust has an official discord (like, the one the Rust team uses to organise their codebase and create new features). I can ask them for their fave blueteam features of Rust :)
Ask if I'm allowed to include a link to the official discord of Rust. They only have like 2 help channels, the rest of the channels are for organising new features / work on the language itself. It's really cool to be able to see the language evole in Discord, rather than whatever C++ or Python uses (mailing lists I think)

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