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Shift and merge numbers as in 2048 game code

I started to learn Rust last night. Given its parallelization capabilities, I thought a good starting point would be porting my C++ AI for 2048 to Rust. This is the function implementing the shift ...
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Wanted a cat. Got lolcat

Wanna learn Rust? Ya rly! I can haz FizzBuzz? No wai! Gimme /bin/cat then. But rustc say LOL! Must handle teh err0rz! Now iz ...
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Lotto simulator

With the recent craziness of the Powerball in the US, I got interested in building a little lotto simulator to see how frequently I could win with purchasing large amounts of tickets. For those not ...
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Rust Brainfuck interpreter

I took the code from kostyas benchmarks for the Rust Brainfuck interpreter and tried to optimize it. There is also a discussion on Reddit about the poor performance of Rust in the Benchmark. Before ...
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Tokenize s-expressions in Rust

I'm writing an s-expression tokenizer in Rust. I have the following code written, but it is not idiomatic Rust - it is quite ugly. TokenizerI is simply an ...
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Rust language tag implementation

language-tags is my first crate, it is hosted on GitHub and I uploaded it to Crates.io. It parses language tags like en-US into useful parts, like language and ...
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Port of NLTK tokenizing code from Python to Rust

I'm working on a port of NLTK to Rust. I am fairly new to Rust, so I wanted to post a small file to check if I was writing idiomatic Rust. I've included the original Python. The Python has docstrings ...
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K-Means in Rust

I have implemented for learning purposes a simple K-Means clustering algorithm in Rust. For those who are not familiar: you are given N points, say in the plane, ...
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Calculating word-wise CRC

This is a small program to calculate the CRC for an STM32 program image, compatible with the CRC on the STM32 hardware. It's a word-wise CRC, and the bin file is encoded as a series of 32 bit little ...
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Log sorting program

This is my first ever program written in Rust (after reading the book). It is small tool to sort all lines from stdin according to two criteria. First one is time ...
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Recursively pop the last node from a singly linked list

I am exploring different ways of implementing a linked list in Rust as a learning project. In one particular place, I've got some code that works properly, but it makes multiple calls to unwrap--I am ...
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Ntree: a reimplementation of the tree utility

tree is described as "a recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files" on the homepage for its Linux implementation. I don't ...
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How can I find out why this Rust program to echo lines from stdin is slow?

Given the following Rust program: ...
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Rust Guessing Game

Am I making good use of the Rust language and APIs? What can be improved? ...
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Simple cat in Rust

I'm learning Rust, from a Python background, and while I've used languages like C and C++ in the (distant) past, system languages aren't really my specialty. I would just like to know if my code is ...
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A Rusty implementation of CowSay

I'm making my first foray into Rust. I wanted to copy a fun and non utilitarian tool so I chose CowSay. It's not feature complete (CowSay has a lot of options) but it's a start. My primary reasons ...
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Gamma function in Rust

The gamma function is one of a couple nice continuous extensions to the traditional factorial function. I used this Python program as a reference, which in turn, uses this Ada program. As the Ada ...
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Detecting two keys pressed in quick succession

My computer has been having this issue where when I press a key, two key presses get registered. The goal of this program is to detect the time delta between the two keys so that I can set an ...
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Implementation of UNIX `tee` in Rust

I am currently reading Michael Kerrisk's book, The Linux Programming Interface. This is one of the exercises from the end of chapter 4 (I'm working in Rust, not C). A Rust implementation of the ...
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Binary Tree Implementation in Rust

To teach myself Rust, I implemented a naive binary tree with support for insert, delete and lookup operations as well as in-order iteration. I'm still a little rusty (no pun intended) when it comes ...
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The rusty Sieve of Eratosthenes

To get familiar with the Rust language I've decided to implement the method of Sieve of Eratosthenes to find primes up to a number N. I have created the following code that both prints the prime ...
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A rusty Bit Vector library

As an exercise to learn Rust I've decided to write a Bit Vector library, furthermore I also intend to use it later because my version can share slices of the bit vector between threads whereas the ...
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Project Euler #11“numbers in a grid” in Rust

To learn more about Rust, I implemented Project Euler #11 "Numbers in a grid". Contrary to some people, I prefer not having the actual data grid in my code, so I put it in a file, which I read in the ...
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Selection sort algorithm in Rust

I am just trying to use Rust so I will be thankful for all remarks and corrections: ...
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Jaccard distance between strings in Rust

The Jaccard distance between two sets is the size of their intersection divided by the size of their union. For example, the distance between {1, 2, 3} and ...
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Implementing a van Emde Boas tree in Rust

I wanted to implement a van Emde Boas Tree in Rust, to start learning the language. Much of my implementation is derived from the pseudo-code on wikipedia, with the exception that empty subtrees are ...
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Bitcoin algorithm BIP0039: Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys

This is an implementation of BIP0039 in Rust (I used python-mnemonic as a guide). I'd like my first Rust program to be critiqued. I would like to know if the program is structured correctly, if I've ...
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Bucket sort in Rust

First of all, the code: ...
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Implement a generic Fibonacci sequence in Rust without using Copy trait

I'm trying to learn Rust and am a beginner. How does one go about implementing a generic version of the Fibonacci sequence without using Copy trait in Rust? My code ...
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General Fizzbuzz

I'm learning Rust now and created a program to solve the task General Fizzbuzz on Rosetta Code. For example, given: 20 3 Fizz 5 Buzz 7 Baxx where the first line ...
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Huffman encoding implementation for Unicode

I'm looking for a general review with emphasis on idiomaticness and error handling. ...
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Randomly selecting an adjective and noun, combining them into a message

This is my first Rust program. I have previously written a lot of Python, and some C. I would like some advice on whether I am doing things idiomatically, and any improvements I could make! I also ...
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X-up utility for EVE Online

I am learning Rust. I also play EVE Online – a video game about internet spaceships. I decided that it would be fun to practice Rust by writing a simple utility to help me x up. to x up (verb) ...
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Basic binary tree manipulation in Rust

The goal here is to implement a basic binary tree with values only on leaves, with depth, mirror, and ...
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Parsing/RPN calculator algorithm

I decided to try and complete the Parsing/RPN calculator algorithm from Rosetta Code in Rust. I'm still learning Rust and would appreciate feedback on my code. ...
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Converting a 12h clock to 24h clock

I started picking up Rust on my free time, and I'm curious about what style errors have I made and where should I improve as a programmer. The problem is from HackerRank and very simple: there is a ...
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Simple ASCII art in Rust

I stumbled my way through some Rust yesterday and today to make a simple ASCII art API. It can draw lines, circles, and a canvas. ...
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What is the idiomatic Rust way to write this naive JavaScript token scanner code fragment?

I am learning Rust and finding it quite a difficult but rewarding and fun challenge to learn how to write idiomatic and succinct, clean code in it. I have written the following simple naive ...
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Binary trees in Rust: iterators

This is a follow-up to Basic binary tree manipulation in Rust, where Shepmaster suggested that I implement the Iterator trait for the binary tree. This ended up ...
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Python-like enumerate and join

I'm new to Rust and trying to convert some Python to Rust. I have the following in Python: ...
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K-means clustering in Rust

I've implemented K-means clustering in Rust. It's my second Rust project (my first one is here: Randomly selecting an adjective and noun, combining them into a message) I would like advice on ...
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Number-Guessing Game in Rust

I don't yet see a code review for a number-guessing game in Rust. Since I am just learning the language, and since the number-guessing game is part of the official Rust tutorial, I thought it would be ...
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Using parser_combinators to parse a string

I am playing with Rust, and am trying to write a simple parser. I need to parse the string: "0123,456789" into a stucture: ...
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Multiple rusty Sieves of Eratosthenes

To get more familiar with the multi-threading aspects in the Rust language I decided to multi-thread my earlier implementation of The rusty Sieve of Eratosthenes. I have to say that it is probably in ...
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Netscape bookmark file generator

I started to learn Rust some time ago and I wonder if there is some way to write Rust code that is both concise and safe — in particular, avoiding unwrap(), casting ...
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Counting primes less than n

The following code was written to be a submission to this challenge on PPCG. It uses this algorithm, the Meissal-Lehmer method. I follow the Wikipedia entry pretty naively, except I tried to memoize ...
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Edit distance implementation

This problem is taken from the book Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition By Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein: In order to transform one source string ...
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From a string of 3 numbers to 3 integers

I'm solving some puzzles to learn Rust. A problem I faced is to turn a string of 3 integers into 3 integers. I succeeded with the following example: ...
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Extract PNGs embedded in a file

My approach was to find each occurrence of the PNG's file signature followed by its end of file (EOF) and write the bytes between to a new file whose name is simply a counter starting at zero. ...