Rust Introduction

Rust is an extremely interesting programming language with modern constructs and syntax but with the executable performance of C/C++. This makes Rust suitable for high-speed calculations, games, and other processing intensive system programming applications.

This blog will follow my learning process while implementing some Engineering Tools along the way. Engineering Tools are circuit simulators and other applications usually found in a desktop application but may also be web based.


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