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Creative Projects for Rust Programmers

By : Carlo Milanesi
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Creative Projects for Rust Programmers

By: Carlo Milanesi

Overview of this book

Rust is a community-built language that solves pain points present in many other languages, thus improving performance and safety. In this book, you will explore the latest features of Rust by building robust applications across different domains and platforms. The book gets you up and running with high-quality open source libraries and frameworks available in the Rust ecosystem that can help you to develop efficient applications with Rust. You'll learn how to build projects in domains such as data access, RESTful web services, web applications, 2D games for web and desktop, interpreters and compilers, emulators, and Linux Kernel modules. For each of these application types, you'll use frameworks such as Actix, Tera, Yew, Quicksilver, ggez, and nom. This book will not only help you to build on your knowledge of Rust but also help you to choose an appropriate framework for building your project. By the end of this Rust book, you will have learned how to build fast and safe applications with Rust and have the real-world experience you need to advance in your career.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Implementing the gg_ski project

The first three projects in this chapter are just a rewrite of the three projects covered in the preceding chapter but are converted so that they use the ggez framework and the nalgebra library instead. They are as follows:

  • The ski project has become gg_ski.
  • The silent_slalom project has become gg_silent_slalom.
  • The assets_slalom project has become gg_assets_slalom.

Each project's behavior is very similar to its respective project in Chapter 6, Creating a WebAssembly Game Using Quicksilver, and so you can go back to that chapter to see the screenshots accompanying each one. For all three projects, gg_ski, gg_silent_slalom, and gg_assets_slalom, the Cargo.toml file has the following change. Instead of the quicksilver dependency, there are the following dependencies:

ggez = "0.5"
nalgebra = "0.18"

The term ggez (pronounced G. G. easy) is a slang term used by multiplayer online gamers.

The ggez framework was admittedly inspired by...