amlich.rs - My first Rust project
Have you ever googled “am lich” just to know what day is today in Vietnamese lunar calendar? Now it could be easier and friendlier with amlich.rs right in your terminal ;).
amlich.rs
It was really into Rust and then I went and seeked for an idea that help me practicing it. And then I came up with the idea of building a CLI tool that help me lookup what day it is in Vietnamese Lunar calendar.
I started diging on internet how to calculate lunar calendar date from gregorian date.
Oops. It wasn’t easy as I thought :O
There were thousands of new terms that kicked my brain and I was, really really confused. Things like about sun and moon, and it cycles, et cetera… Oh well, I was gonna give it up.
I meant I gave up “Learning it on my own”. Instead I found some interesting articles, and luckily they came with some JS implementation. So my job now is only converting them into Rust. Yay!
For those who concerned
The calculation method that I found is here. Shout out for Mr. Ho Ngoc Duc because of his very detailed instruction on the calculation method. Also there is an English version for those don’t speak Vietnamese.
Source code and binaries
You can find them in this github repository.
My first Rust project
A boring monday I walked around Reddit, and I see a guy asking about how better is Rust in comparison with Golang. Well that day I was just into Golang and fell in love with it (I still love Golang today). In comment section, people talk a lot about Rust performance over Golang, yet also its complexity. I decide that I must give Rust a try.
What is Rust and how good is it? I questioned myself and head straight to its homepage.
First impression of Rust was really kicking. My brain was about to shutdown. But I was excited too, especially heard about its pros. And then I take hours to learn it.
Until today I still not really know it but who know, maybe I will work with Rust one day and I know I am locked and loaded.
And more
I also wrote a game with Rust and GGEZ game engine: ggez-2048. Gonna talk about it later!