I doubled down on #MechanicalMarch and completed a handful of exercises using #vlang on #exercism https://exercism.org/tracks/vlang

It's pretty similar to #golang with some really cool features (Option/Result rather than nil), a batteries-included GUI framework, and a REPL (!)

https://vlang.io/

Learning #Rust for #MechanicalMarch and the #Exercism #12in23 challenge!

Learned a lot of the basics today (variables, control flow, data types, data types) and practiced with pattern matching and error handling - absolutely loving the Rust documentation so far.

We'll see how much the immutability of Rust trips me up during the learning process...

My Rust exercise repository:
https://github.com/philipabbyad/exercism-rust

I earned the #MechanicalMarch badge on #exercism using #golang :golang:

I remember trying to learn Go a while ago (just for fun) and got stuck early, unable to figure out something that should have been trivial. IIRC, trying to combine a string and a number into e.g. "abc123" - it looks like fmt.Sprint is one way I never found at the time.

Dabbling in Rust for #MechanicalMarch on #Exercism #12in23

I have to admit, every attempt at a typed language (except for TS) is pretty challenging for me 😅

I was going to do #Rust for the #MechanicalMarch of the #12in23 #Exercism challenge... but ended up doing #Go instead.

Not further down the syllabus tree to really get to the juicy parts just yet, so can't say much about it.

On a side note, I am not sure how much the whole #Go #telemetry scandal is affecting the community, or new people joining. It'd be interesting to know if the pace of people doing #Go at #Exercism has been affected at all 🤔

Friendly reminder for anyone who like me is a victim of gamification. Today's your last chance to win the #12in23 #FunctionalFebruary batch. I looked at #elixirlang and am happy I did; I liked the ruby-like syntax (I love #ruby and prefer it to #python as scripting language) combined with core functional concepts is really intriguing. I'll definitely keep on working with #elixir. Next month is #MechanicalMarch and I haven't decided yet, but have a tendency to look at #go #golang.