I’ve had the impression lately that everyone is learning Rust and there’s plenty of great material out there to make that easier. {gifski} is perhaps the most well-known example of an R package wrapping a Rust Cargo crate. I don’t really know any system language particularly well, so I figured I’d wade into it and see what it’s like. The big advantages I’ve heard are that it’s more modern than C++, is “safe” (in the sense that you can’t compile something that tries to read...
