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Leading Zeros Utility
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I’m Smart but I’m Bad at Taking Tests
Hello again! You know what they say, new commit, new devlog!
“[Test] Torsion”
We got MORE UNIT TESTS!!! The get_filenames() fn was formerly the only function in helpers.rs that had no unit tests, so I added 6 unit tests for it. They have about the same general structure as the unit tests for change_leading_zeros().
Beautification
I was trying to make my code prettier, and I accidentally screwed up an ownership issue. My unit tests made use of tempdirs with the tempfile crate to test change_leading_zeros() and get_filenames.
This is the original pattern for getting the temp dir’s path:
let binding = tempdir().unwrap();
let dir = binding.path();
// stuff can be done with dir now
This is what I changed it to:
let dir = tempdir().unwrap().path().to_owned();
When the tempdir gets dropped, it also deletes the directory, which makes dir a path to a dir that doesn’t exist. Everything compiles fine, but the code panics because the tempdir doesn’t exist.
Override
Something I forgot to mention in my last devlog is that if there was the files file1.txt and file01.txt, it (c/w)ould rename over one of the files and silently delete the file written over. I still have to fix this issue.
I’ve wanted to learn Zig, so I looked up Zig crash courses on Youtube, and this is from the one I was watching.
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I’ve also started learning zig!
May I know your reasons I think you already use rust right?
@Lxsh-S That’s awesome! My main language used to be Python until the start of this year. My friend is a hardcore Rust dev and they introduced me to the language. I had experience in languages like C#, C++ (for microcontroller boards), and C, yet somehow not enough to have written a malloc(). The moment I started using Rust, I fell in love with the language. My dad recently gave me a crash course in memory management in C, which wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be (I thought I would have to manually find my own memory on the heap). I only recently (like in the last week) heard about Zig from The PrimeTime Bun rewrite video, but I didn’t really think about it until I watched this video, and he mentioned he thought of it as doing a better job at being a modern version of C/C++ than Rust. I decided it might be interesting to have another language under my belt, so I decided to start learning!
Cool! @vidur_thammineni, thanks for this detailed answer I asked it because I also want to get into low level stuff so thought to learn C first, but got amazed by zig and rust :)
@Lxsh-S You should 1000% try C before Zig and Rust, in my opinion. Once you move to Zig and/or Rust, you’ll gain an appreciation for all the useful things they have because C doesn’t have those things. Just the basics of C is enough, I think. Use-after-frees and dangling pointers will make you appreciate the finer things.
Alrightt thankss!!!!!
Will follow
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