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The Rust Compiler is the most helpful one I have experienced so far (feddit.org)

submitted 13 hours ago by cows_are_underrated@feddit.org to c/rust@programming.dev

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I recently started learning rust, and I was ready for one hell of a fight. I heard all those horror Storys about the compiler complaining about every single detail and that developing rust means having a constant fight with the compiler about seemingly irrelevant things. However, so far I have to tell, that while its somewhat true, that the compiler is somewhat picky, it is incredibly helpful. Never before have I seen such good and helpful compiler messages. It not only says what you did wrong, but also gives direct help on what to do to fix your code. I also really like, that it gives you direct references to the rust book in the compiler messages.

Prior to starting my journey with rust I did quite a lot of python, some C and some bash and their interpreter/compiler messages are nothing when comparing them with rust. Especially the bash error messages are awful if you do not know what they mean and how to fix them.

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I was able to turn the string into a char iterator, but I could not figure out how to change elements of said iterator (this can be seen at line 55).

You have a few options here, but the easiest is to collect into a Vec<char>, replace the character there, then do a String::from_iter(chars) to get it back as a string.

You can also manipulate the original chars iterator directly through takes, skips, and so on and collect it into a string, but that's more complicated.

Also, "character" is such a complicated concept because unicode is not simple. If you can work directly with bytes though, you can convert the string to a Vec<u8> (which is the underlying type for String), manipulate that directly, then do String::from_utf8 (or the same method for str) to convert it back to a string.

[–] semi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Since OP will want to do a lot of character based operations for the hangman game, she could also consider using Vec<char> as an internal representation everywhere and only converting into String for display purposes.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 16 minutes ago

I agree, this makes the most sense. I was under the assumption they wanted to keep it as a String, but your suggestion is a better way to approach the problem if they're able to do that.