Rust Tooling (October 2015)

What tools are available for Rust development?
This talk gives you an overview of ways to help you write better Rust code.

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1. Tooling
   

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2. Matthias Endler
   - Backend Engineer at trivago
   - Deals with Website Performance
   - Worked a lot with Python and PHP
   - Played a bit with Golang
   - Not a Rust Programmer yet
   - Likes the ideas of Rust
   @matthiasendler
   

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3. What I like about…
   • PHP: Package manager, Community
   • Python: Syntax, Libraries
   • Golang: Tooling, Documentation
   • C: Speed, no overhead
   

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4. What I like about…
   • PHP: Package manager, Community
   • Python: Syntax, Libraries
   • Golang: Tooling, Documentation
   • C: Speed, no overhead
   RUST
   

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5. RUST: High level on bare metal
   

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6. Complexity vs Speed
   • PHP
   • Python
   • Golang
   • Rust
   • C
   Faster „Easier“
   

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7. Systems Programming
   Memory management
   Error handling
   Static Typing
   Compiling
   …
   

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8. Systems Programming
   is hard!
   

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9. Fast feedback loops
   What we need:
   

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10. Fast feedback loops
    What we need:
    Awesome tooling
    How we get it:
    

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11. Fast feedback loops
    What we need:
    Awesome tooling
    How we get it:
    Well integrated
    All of them should be
    

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12. IDEs?
    

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13. Visual Studio for Rust
    

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14. IntelliJ with Rust support
    

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15. Atom with Rust packages
    

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16. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing
    Package manager
    Syntax highlighting
    Formatting
    Code completion
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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17. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager
    Syntax highlighting
    Formatting
    Code completion
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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18. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/testing.html
    Unit testing
    

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19. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting
    Formatting
    Code completion
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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20. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting
    Code completion
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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21. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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22. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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23. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging: rust gdb?
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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24. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging: rust gdb?
    Code linter: clippy
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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25. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging: rust gdb?
    Code linter: clippy
    Benchmarking: builtin
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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26. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging: rust gdb?
    Code linter: clippy
    Benchmarking: builtin
    Profiling: meh…
    Code coverage
    

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27. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging: rust gdb?
    Code linter: clippy
    Benchmarking: builtin
    Profiling: meh… torch?
    Code coverage
    

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28. https://llogiq.github.io/2015/07/15/profiling.html
    Calls
    Time
    

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29. My tool wishlist
    Unit testing: builtin
    Package manager: cargo
    Syntax highlighting: atom-language-rust
    Formatting: rustfmt
    Code completion: racer
    Debugging: rust gdb?
    Code linter: clippy
    Benchmarking: builtin
    Profiling: meh… torch?
    Code coverage: kcov?
    

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30. kcov …is a code coverage tester for
    compiled programs, Python
    scripts and shell scripts
    language: rust
    matrix:
    fast_finish: true
    include:
    - rust: nightly
    env: FEATURES="--features nightly"
    sudo: false
    - rust: nightly
    env: FEATURES="--features nightly" BENCH=true
    sudo: false
    - rust: beta
    sudo: true
    after_success: |
    sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libelf-dev libdw-dev &&
    wget https://github.com/SimonKagstrom/kcov/archive/master.tar.gz &&
    tar xzf master.tar.gz && mkdir kcov-master/build && cd kcov-master/build && cmake .. && make &&
    sudo make install && cd ../.. &&
    kcov --coveralls-id=$TRAVIS_JOB_ID --exclude-pattern=/.cargo target/kcov target/debug/hyper-*
    Put this into your .travis.yml:
    

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31. Summary
    Lots of work to do
    But impressive start
    

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32. We need to focus on those…
    Unit testing
    Package manager
    Syntax highlighting
    Formatting
    Code completion
    Debugging
    Code linter
    Benchmarking
    Profiling
    Code coverage
    

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33. Bonus
    rr - a reverse debugger

    (http://rr-project.org/)
    Dash - Offline API Documentation browser for Mac
    (https://kapeli.com/dash)
    Crates.io reverse package lookup

    (https://crates.io/crates/serde/reverse_dependencies)
    

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34. Even more at
    https://gist.github.com/nrc/a3bbf6dd1b14ce57f18c
    

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