I wrote about my first impression of Rust in November 2019. After that, I dabbled with it few times, but mostly on very simple code, and while I liked

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I wrote about my first impression of Rust in November 2019. After that, I dabbled with it few times, but mostly on very simple code, and while I liked using Rust I wasn’t too amazed. On the surface, it kind of felt more or less like many other languages I have dabbled with.

All that changed last month when I finally decided to build a realistic use case with Rust. Since I was quite invested in cloud computing and containers, I decided to build a terminal UI to monitor Kubernetes clusters with Rust. I know it was quite ambitious for a Rust newbie. But looking back, it was absolutely worth it and I have KDash to show for it.

Introducing KDash - A simple @kubernetesio terminal dashboard built with @rustlang Still a WIP but here is an MVP I built over the last few weeks. Please try it out and provide me feedback also any contribution is welcome#rust #Kubernetes #oss https://t.co/ws9qfc9ie8 pic.twitter.com/NYkQHQwBc2

So it’s a pretty UI on the terminal that shows different resource data and utilization metrics for Kubernetes clusters. Kind of inspired by K9s, which is built with Go. The focus for KDash was speed and UX. With Rust, I knew that I didn’t have to worry about the speed part.