enet4 / rust-tropes

A dictionary of jargon and tropes around the community of Rust developers.

Rust Tropes

This project is an initiative to write a dictionary of expressions and other jargon used by members of the Rust community.

See the Rust Tropes online!

Contributing

This project is open to contributions of various forms, including more content, increased accuracy of said content, and style improvements.

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

License

The actual content of this dictionary, currently in the content folder but not bound by this representation or path in the repository, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license shall be transferred with any eventual change of formatting or representation of the same information.

rust-tropes's Issues

Errata: the toilet closure is not _exactly_ equivalent to `std::mem::drop`

I'm leaving this here so that the toilet closure entry can be slightly improved, preferably with a suitable reference.

Example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2018&gist=e5cb90b8b3558c4108443fa7b61e4556

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This Stack Overflow question is also looking for great answers.

Add: Megazording

This is a best practice that is used when embedding Rust in other applications, but I had never heard a term for it until I ran across it today. I don't know if it counts as a "trope" yet, since I've only seen it once, but it would be good to have a standard term for this in the community!

Thanks for considering it, and feel free to close if this if you don't think it fits!

Add: Clippy

Add: Zero Cost Abstractions

Relevant links:

• https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
• https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/zero-cost-abstractions/

Presentation?

How should these tropes be presented in the future? A few possible options are GitHub pages, mdbook, or maybe something with better search capabilities.

License?

Which license should I use here?

Most Rust projects choose a dual Apache-2.0 OR MIT license, but this repository is unlikely to have substantial code (except maybe for creating static pages in the future).