Our Most Loved Programming Language
According to Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey, Rust has held the top spot for the most loved programming language for six years in a row (2016 – 2021) and the content of this newsletter attests to the interest in the language by the developers resident in Nigeria.
This month, we have four articles, a Rust crate, and a rust story on how Rust inspired a mission to grow developer talent in Nigeria.
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Developer Stories
The Chronicles of a Web3 philosopher.
In this Rust Developer Story, we explore the story of Seun Lanlege, his journey as a Rust Developer, starting an organisation that is creating an army of Web3 Developers and his plans for the future
Open Source projects
waihona
Waihona is a Rust crate built by Diretnan Domnan and Wisdom Praise for performing cloud storage CRUD actions across major cloud providers like AWS
Articles
Rust + Netlify: Creating and Deploying a Documentation Manual Easily
In this article, Ugochi shows us an easy way to create a Rust Documentation Manual by leveraging Netlify
Rust specific programming concepts for Solana program
This article is the latest entry in Ayomide's series where he talks about Rust specific concepts that's essential to know when building a Solana program.
Building REST API's with Rust, Actix Web and MongoDB
Learn how to build a REST API with Rust in this tutorial written by Abdulhafeez Abdulraheem
The borrow checker
Ayo continues sharing her journey learning about the Rust programming language. In this article she shares her understanding of the infamous borrow checker.
Upcoming Events
RustFest EMEA
RustFest - EMEA, is coming up on April 23 and we're calling on Rustaceans in Europe, Middle East and Africa to submit talks here. Keep an eye out for this event!