Month: February 2020

Actix web describes itself as a small, pragmatic, and extremely fast rust web framework. The README has an example to start with so let’s create a new Rust project. $ cargo new web_app Created binary (application) `web_app` package $ cd web_app First we need these dependencies in our Cargo.toml: [dependencies] actix-web = “2” actix-rt = … Read more

In Rust, there are two types of references: a shared reference and a mutable reference. A reference is denoted by &. A mutable reference is denoted as &mut. The docs tell us that a ‘reference lets you refer to a value without taking ownership of it.’ What does that mean? What is ownership? Let’s look … Read more