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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_whac project

In this section, we will examine the gg_whac project, which is an implementation in the ggez framework of the famous Whack-A-Mole arcade game. First of all, let's try to play it.

After running cargo run --release in the gg_whac folder, the following window will appear, which shows a lawn:

For those of you who aren't familiar with this game, here are the rules. When you click on the Start button, the following things happen:

  1. The Start button disappears.
  2. The countdown begins at the top left from 40 seconds to 0.
  3. A nice mole pops up in a random position of the lawn.
  4. The mouse cursor becomes a barred circle.
  5. If you move your mouse cursor over the mole, it becomes a cross and a big mallet appears; this mallet can be dragged by the mouse as long as you remain over the mole.

Your window should look similar to the following:

If you click the main mouse button when the mouse cursor hovers over the mole, the mole disappears and another one appears...