Transposing other language paradigms to Rust often reveals unforeseen issues. Learn about the limitations of Rust and how to work around them.

As a moderator of the Rust subreddit, I regularly happen upon posts about developers’ attempts to transpose their respective language paradigms to Rust, with mixed results and varying degrees of success.

In this guide, I’ll describe some of the issues developers encounter when transposing other language paradigms to Rust and propose some alternative solutions to help you work around Rust’s limitations.

• Inheritance in Rust
• Linked lists and other pointer-based data structures
• Self-referencing types
• Global mutable state
• ‘Just’ initializing an array

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