Rust for Node developers

Didn't really see a ton of substance in that, it seemed to mainly add up to a long-winded explanation of printing out a text file using two different languages in convoluted ways.

Here is my much shorter version of basically the same thing with a different language:

Nim for Node.js Programmers

I love Node.js programming, especially because of the massive ecosystem of modules available, but Nim has some advantages in many cases. Here are three: it uses very little memory, creates code that is very fast, and interfaces extremely easily with C and C++.

### Node.js

How to set up Node

Since you are a Node programmer, you already have it set up.

    const fs = require('fs');
 
    fs.readFile('hello.txt', 'utf8', (err, data) => {
      if (err)  {
        console.error('Problem reading file:', err);
      } else {
        console.log(data);
      }
    });

How to set up an editor/IDE

Since you are a programmer, you already set it up.

### Nim

Install Nim -- thoroughly explained here: http://nim-lang.org/download.html

Enter into readfile.nim:

    try:
      echo readFile("hello.txt")
    except:
      echo "Problem reading file."

Run command 'nim c readfile.nim' then './readfile'

### Package Management in Nim

The `nimble` command handles packages in Nim. Please read the excellent and thorough documentation here: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble

For more information, see the great documentation at http://nim-lang.org/documentation.html, the new book Nim in Action, https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action, or many other resources online such as those listed here: http://nim-lang.org/learn.html

After using Firefox for the first time in forever I noticed that I'm liking a lot of what Mozilla does to try to educate people on web development practices. I am curious as to how others find Rust to use in practice. Looking to augment my knowledge in Java with another language that's quite different.