This is a first attempt to dip my toes into the Rust language.
The goals of this project are to
- Explore the borrowing system in rust
- Create a comprehensive test suite using the standard testing library rust provides
- Create a fun(ctional) game
The secret word generator pulls from a predefined list of words stored locally. The function uses resovoir sampling so that the file didn't need to be stored in memory or iterated over twice. Generating random numbers is probably not the fastest thing I couldn't think of anything better.
I didn't run into as many borrow checker errors as I expected since I didn't end up doing anything too crazy. Oh well, next time I'll get wild. I feel like I am following the path of everyone else where the first couple weeks are dominated by borrow-checker errors. A couple things still puzzle me...
- There seems to be many instances of return types of
Option<Result<_,_>>, is there an idiomatic way of getting th data out other than.unwrap().unwrap()? - I've been using the Spock testing framework and have probably gotten lazy, but I feel like mocking services or resources here would be pretty painful in a large project. Most likely this due to a lack of experience with different testing patterns on my part.