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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_silent_slalom project

In this section, we will examine the gg_silent_slalom project, which is an implementation of the ggez framework of the gg_silent_slalom game presented in the preceding chapter. Here, we will only examine the differences between the gg_ski project and the silent_slalom project.

As we saw in the preceding section, ggez handles input as events. In this project, two other key events are handled—Space and R:

KeyCode::Space => {
self.input.started = true;
}
KeyCode::R => {
self.input.started = false;
}

The spacebar is used to command the start of the race, and so it sets the started flag to true. The R key is used to reposition the ski at the beginning of the slope, and so it sets the started flag to false.

This flag is then used in the update method, as in the following code:

match self.mode {
Mode::Ready => {
if self.input.started {
self.mode = Mode::Running;
}
}

When in Ready mode, instead of directly...