Learning Rust — Part 2

1 min readOct 23, 2023

As I’m working my way though the Programming Rust book, I found some interesting articles that helped me with understanding the Scala => Rust mindset a bit better.

Monads

Comming from Scala ZIO working with Monads and other Higher Kinded Types is a second nature. It is hard to switch back to the more lowlevel while/for loops again, which in truth feels a step back.
Varkor does a very nice in depth overview of the differences.

Idiomatic monads in Rust

A pragmatic new design for high-level abstractions Monads (and, more generally, constructs known as "higher kinded…

varkor.github.io

Stack vs Heap

Yerachmiel Feltzman does a good basic into into stack vs heap. Concept you don’t normally deal with in JVM (unless you get into the garbage collecting optimization)

Rust: stack and heap, moves and copies

Why does the first code snippet compiles, while the second won’t?

medium.com

Scala to Rust Journey

Madhukara Phatak also has a very nice in depth overview of his journey from Scala to Rust

part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

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As I am making my way though Chapter 3, I’ll keep updating these stories with new links and insights