Issue #4
Hello and Welcome to issue #4 of “The 3”, where each issue contains precisely three resources related to Software Development & Productivity.
How Rust developers are making the web safer
If you know Rust, then this article isn’t for you. But if you have heard of Rust and have never taken the time to understand at a very high level what the whole fuss is about, you should go and read this article.
That’s true that developers sometimes treat their programming language as religious. But even the most skeptics should be aware that Rust was ranked the “most loved” programming language in Stack Overflow for the last six years.
Gigantic companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, and others got deeply invested in Rust. The early adopter’s phase is already over; there is no need to be afraid of investing in a temporary trend. The Rust language is here to stay for many years to come.
vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web
The GitHub Codespaces project went out of Beta mode a few months ago. However, this project fulfills the VSCode vision, letting developers code in the browser. Moreover, GitHub’s engineers are also eating their own dog’s food, as this article details - I think it’s super cool!
It seems that GitHub is pulling out the big guns in that direction. Thus, it wasn’t a surprise to see the next release of the vscode.dev which can be viewed as a more lightweight version of CodeSpaces.
vscode.dev isn’t backed by a VM, and there is no option to use the Terminal, but it’s an excellent tool for viewing code and editing it a bit. It’s more similar to Octotree or github1s.com but more capable since it can edit code.
Carbon - Create and share beautiful images of your source code
Carbon is a friendly web tool that makes it easy to create a beautiful picture of code snippets. Just paste a code snippet, choose the programming language and a theme, and click Export.