Exciting Projects for the Rust Community
Last month, we celebrated the birth of Rust Benin and Rust Uyo. However, the Rust community is seeing more growth as our members pioneered the first Polkadolt Meet-up in Nigeria. With a large number of attendees, it tells us that Rust Nigeria and its members are making impacts in Nigeria's technology space.
Open Source projects
Quine Clock
A Quine is a program that displays its own code. The Quine Clock by g4titanx is a Rust rewrite from Alexey's [C code] (https://gist.github.com/rexim/f582098611b2be202051ba543e21da05). If you would like to see a Quine clock in a browser, check out this JavaScript implementation.
Articles
Understanding Smart Pointers in Rust: A Comprehensive Guide
Learning Rust implementations, especially how they relate to managing data can be difficult to grasp sometimes. This article by Ebina Perelyn Okoh explains smart pointers, what they are, and how to use them in your Rust code base.