Plurrrr

Programmers don’t understand hash functions, and I can demonstrate this to most of the people that will read this with a single observation:

When you saw the words “hash function” in the title, you might have assumed this was going to be a blog post about password storage.

I remember the sad day that I finally gave up on using Emacs for Java development at work. I had spent hours trying to configure it to properly index all of the files so that I could go to definition easily. My mentor, the old Lisp guy with the insane init.el file who I would pester with questions, told me: “Just use IntelliJ”.

Iterators are part of Rust’s secret sauce. They power things from the humble for-loop to the elegant iterator chain, but have you ever stopped to think how they work?

Let’s find out more about Rust’s iterators by implementing our own versions of common iterators and reading the standard library’s source code.