This week, I stumbled over Nannou, “An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust”. As I had a look at Processing before, I wonder how these two environments for creative coding compare. And as Nannou is written in Rust, I need to have a look at Rust first.

I finished the Getting started guide for Rust in about 45 minutes today. The command line tools and Emacs mode make me feel at home. No admin rights needed for the installation, which is great. I like that a package manager is included right from the start. If one does not want to install anything to try out Rust, they have setup an online playground, so one can try Rust inside a browser.

To be honest, Rust looks a bit weird to me. But maybe that’s just because I’m used to reading code in Java and C#. I need to spend more time with Rust. Let’s see what comes next. Maybe “the book,” The Rust Programming Language.