Introduction

This piece is meant to be a quick introduction to simple constructs that are more or less similar between Python and Rust.

The following constructs are covered:

The code is available in the src/intro directory of the repo.

Rust's traits don't have a direct equivalent in Python, but they are similar enough to protocols or special methods in that they allow us to define a set of methods that a type must implement, allowing us to customize the behavior of the type.

Rust embraces functional programming more than Python does, so it has a number of functional constructs that are commonly used. Where Python prefers list comprehensions, Rust prefers map/filter. Rust's closures, are, at the surface level, similar enough to Python's lambda functions, but they are also a lot more complex and can be viewed as a superset of anonymous functions.

Hopefully, as you read through the examples, you'll see that Rust and Python are not as different as they may seem at first glance!