Since 2016, Rust has been voted the “most loved programming language” every year in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey by what appears to be a gr

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Since 2016, Rust has been voted the “most loved programming language” every year in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey by what appears to be a growing margin, and after checking it out for myself, it’s pretty clear why.

Rust offers a plethora of features you’d expect from a modern language and addresses pain points that are present in many others. It competes in the same kind of space occupied by C and C++, offering similar performance, but it is also known for safety, reliability and productivity.

The trade-off with Rust is in its complexity, however; it has a reasonably steep learning curve, particularly with regards to its unique memory management model known as ownership.

In this post, we’ll explore a step by step implementation of Snake, the simple but addictive game found preloaded on old Nokia phones. We’ll use the terminal as the UI and the keyboard for input.

I should preface this post by stating that I am by no means an expert in Rust. I’ve been learning it on and off in my spare time for the past year or so. I’ve also more or less thrashed the game out without much thought for code quality, just as a learning exercise more than anything else.

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