3 posts tagged with "rust"

I was recently listening to one of my go to podcasts, A Problem Squared, where the hosts tackled the problem of figuring out the probabilities of outcomes for a particular card game. They approached it by simulating the game 10 millions times and collecting statistics on the results. I've been wanting a small Rust project to work on, so I thought it would be fun to do this in Rust and run 1B+ simulations to see how the results compared. I learned far more than I expected.

One of Rust’s most powerful features is its ownership model, which enforces memory safety and helps prevent bugs related to side effects. In this post, we’ll explore how Rust’s function signatures make side effects explicit—or impossible—by design, and compare this to common patterns in other languages where side effects are often hidden.

In preparation for our upcoming pilot bootcamp, I've been working on a few programming challenges. Since we're challenging our bootcamp participants to learn a new language as part of this effort, I thought I'd do the same and finally begin exploring Rust.