Learning Rust by Simulating Heat Diffusion
In the summer of 2018, Rust caught my attention. For most people, C++ is the primary choice for any job that requires fast performance. Even though I also dabbled in some front-end tech like React and the whole tangled mess of NPM Dependency Hell™ (cough leftpad), I thought it was strange that C++, the language that is most people's first choice for writing fast, low-level code, feels like 30 years of afterthoughts…