Introduction

Idioms

• Use borrowed types for arguments
• Concatenating Strings with format!
• Constructor
• The Default Trait
• Collections Are Smart Pointers
• Finalisation in Destructors
• mem::{take(_), replace(_)}
• On-Stack Dynamic Dispatch
• Foreign function interface (FFI)
  • Idiomatic Errors
  • Accepting Strings
  • Passing Strings
• Iterating over an Option
• Pass Variables to Closure
• Privacy For Extensibility
• Easy doc initialization
• Temporary mutability

Design Patterns

• Behavioural
  • Command
  • Interpreter
  • Newtype
  • RAII Guards
  • Strategy
  • Visitor
• Creational
  • Builder
  • Fold
• Structural
  • Compose Structs
  • Prefer Small Crates
  • Contain unsafety in small modules
• Foreign function interface (FFI)
  • Object-Based APIs
  • Type Consolidation into Wrappers

Anti-patterns

• Clone to satisfy the borrow checker
• #[deny(warnings)]
• Deref Polymorphism

Functional Programming

• Programming paradigms

Additional Resources

• Design principles