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New venue for Reading Rust Meetup

| Tim Abell | 0 minute read

If you weren’t aware, The Rust Workshop runs a meetup in the tech hub of Reading, UK, providing a local focal point for all with an interest in Rust without having to travel into London. The schedule is the second Tuesday of every month, and you can subscribe on meetup.com...

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Choosing a Rust web framework

| Tim Abell | 0 minute read

Unlike in dotnet and ruby on rails where there is more or less ONE TRUE WAY™ to build web things there are several competing backend frameworks / crates for web backends in Rust. There are many choices for the front-end with and without Rust, but for this post I’m just...

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New rust workshop podcast episode

| Tim Abell | 7 minute read

Hot off the audacity mp3 presses, a long overdue rust workshop podcast episode is out. Get it here: The Rust Workshop Podcast - Episode 4 - “Consulting, Web projects, Regression tests, TWIR, Rustacean Station, Meetups” I’m looking for guests so if you’d like to record with me about all things...

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Rust Programming Books

| Tim Abell | 0 minute read

A catalogue of books on the Rust programming language. I was about to buy a book on Rust, then I wondered what other books there were, turns out quite a few! I took the time to make a catalogue of them for you here. If I’ve missed any then do...

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Reading Rust Meetup Group Launched

| Tim Abell | 3 minute read

There’s a thriving London Rust meetup already, but nothing for the Thames Valley. Given the growing interest in Rust in the programming community and that Reading is a bit of a hub for technology businesses I’ve set up a meetup in Reading. To start with it’s just laptop + pub...

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Live streaming rust coding videos

| Tim Abell | 0 minute read

I’ve been doing a bit of live-streaming as I work on this presentation for “dependency injection in Rust”. In order to show that the methods GPT came up with actually work, I’m working on a demo codebase here: https://github.com/timabell/rust-dependency-injection-demo. And because I can I’ve been livestreaming bits of it to...

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How to be part of the rust community

| Tim Abell | 0 minute read

As I’ve joined the UK rust community it’s not been super-clear to me how to join in online. So here’s some resources to help you get stuck in. https://www.rust-lang.org/community lists some of these, and more. Online https://www.rust-lang.org/community The Official Rust Users Forum #general chat on The Official Rust Zulip reddit...

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