EPISODE · Feb 28, 2017 · 37 MIN
What's so hard about writing a Slack client in Rust? (rustmcb)
from Chaos Computer Club - archive feed · host Matthias Endler
“I’ll just write a simple API wrapper for that. Give me two hours.” Does that sound oddly familiar? Don’t be fooled: writing an easy to use, idiomatic abstraction layer is a lot of work - in any language. I want to tell you my story about writing a Slack client in Rust. From documentation to testing and error handling there’s a lot of pitfalls to avoid and laughs to share. about this event: https://c3voc.de
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“I’ll just write a simple API wrapper for that. Give me two hours.” Does that sound oddly familiar? Don’t be fooled: writing an easy to use, idiomatic abstraction layer is a lot of work - in any language. I want to tell you my story about writing a Slack client in Rust. From documentation to testing and error handling there’s a lot of pitfalls to avoid and laughs to share. about this event: https://c3voc.de
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