Gabriel Kaszewski
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- Created "My 2023 Coding Edition" post detailing projects and experiences in Rust and game development. - Added "My 2024 and 2025 roadmap" outlining goals and projects for the upcoming years. - Introduced "Python Tutorial - Introduction" and "Python - Variables" posts to teach Python programming basics. - Published "ROADMAP for 2023" to outline initial goals for the year. - Added "My Rust little adventure" post summarizing various Rust projects undertaken. - Released "Spanish Inquisition - 3.0.1 UPDATE" detailing the latest game update and features. - Added multiple background images in AVIF format for website use. - Removed unused SVG files to clean up the public directory.
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title: "My Rust little adventure"
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description: ""
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date: "2023-07-21"
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In the previous post I have written that I would have wanted to get into Rust. In July, I finally started writing in Rust 😉. It has been a quite pleasant adventure, I am not going to lie. I have written several projects in it.
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## Mandelbrot set
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Okay, so the first 'project' that I did in Rust was a simple program that creates Mandelbrot's set image. The code for that was provided by the book _Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development 2nd Edition_
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I did it because it seemed cool and in High School I made similar program but in Java.
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This one was more interesting because it used multithreading.
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But that was just a **hello world** program, I did not write my 'own' code.
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**Repo:** [mandelbrot](https://github.com/GKaszewski/mandelbrot)
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## Chip8 emulator
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This was my second program. It was more *advanced*than Mandelbrot but still quite simple I think...
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Chip8 is actually just an interpreted programming language that was used in 8 bit microprocessors in the 70s. Entire specs are just 11 pages, operation set is quite well documented and the entire process of implementing them was quite pleasant and fast.
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My emulator is somewhat functional I would say, although it has some issues with keyboard handling and sound is not implemented **yet**. The emulator passed cortex+ test but somehow flags test still fails and I have no clue why and how to fix it, so I am going to work on that maybe in the future. Nevertheless it was a fun project.
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I used raylib for window and drawing context, honestly I think that raylib is just an awesome library for projects like this. Anyone who would like to create some project that requires drawing, displaying window and handling sound&keyboard I would recommend you to try raylib.
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Repo: [chip8](https://github.com/GKaszewski/chip8)
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## Screensaver
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I wanted to create my own screen saver 😎. I had no idea what I wanted to make though, finally I'd had decided on making Conway's game of life as a screen saver. I have also used raylib for this project, see how useful it is.
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I thought that writing own screen saver were going to be difficult to some extent, but turned out it really was not. All I had to do was to run window in fullscreen without any decorations and just parse some CLI arguments... and that was pretty much it. Oh I also had to handle any user activity and make it to close the app. Anyway it was much fun, I will probably make another one soon, something with Minecraft theme I think...
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Repo: [screensaver](https://github.com/GKaszewski/screensaver)
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## Asteroids
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The last project that I have been working on is asteroids game. It is actually just a remake of my C project (I used SDL2 for that one). In this one I am using **Bevy engine** and I have to admit it is pretty handy and straight-forward to use. I love the data driven design. I have yet still to add HUD, power-ups, boss fight and second-player feature to the game and then I will publish it on my website. In the future I am planning to make my first **commercial game** with Bevy. But we will see.
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### Conclusion
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Rust is fun, I had no idea that I would find myself in that language but I am pleasantly surprised. Same thing was with Python 😜. I really love the eco-system of Rust. Cargo is just the best. I hated in C and C++ the linking and compiling of external libraries and setting up the toolchain, in Rust all of those problems just fade away. The match feature is also cool.
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