Generators probably. It’s the one thing i genuinely miss about python when i work in rust.

Ick. At the very least, i’ve seen it a LOT less in VSC. The fact that something as simple as rainbow brackets uses the freemium model in intellij sucks. I mean the fact that it’s not a builtin setting is dumb too but that’s beside the point

The freemium and constant “are you sure you dont want to pay?” from some intellij plugins is insulting enough that it’s hard to believe any developer would praise it. Presumably this doesnt happen in vscode because it cant happen in vscode, not because people arent shameless enough to do it there.

Obligatory shoutout to Qownnotes for being excellent, fully open source, and with owncloud integration.

It’s most useful when you’re using some data you already have as the dictionary key. A usecase i had for this was a binary file parser with 10 types of event markers. It was originally coded with if/elif, but performance was a pretty big consideration. Using the event markers as keys to a dictionary dispatch improved performance by about 15% and made the code significantly more readable.

I read the book. It’s not too difficult to replicate their test’s functionality with rust tests, but i still ended up using their software suite a few times to verify some behavior and get a better understanding of the step-by-step logic for the alu and cpu

Hopefully this month i can finally finish up nand2tetris. I did more or less all of it in rust to learn the language, and i feel like I’m now about as comfortable in it as i am in python. Learning how to build a computer from logic gates was sick, but debugging the compiler has been really draining. The way compilers work is neat, but all sorts of little problems keep coming up that force me to restructure large pieces of it over and over and i’ve lost almost all my momentum.

I’m not sure what I’ll move on to next, maybe something more front-facing like a gui library, or maybe I’ll finally look into anything that might actually provide me skills that will get me a job lol.