Show HN: Learning Rust by writing a Markdown to HTML compiler
A software engineer shares their experience learning the Rust programming language by building a custom Markdown-to-HTML compiler. The project was completed without the use of generative AI tools to ensure a deeper understanding of the language.
Why it matters
It demonstrates a practical, hands-on approach to mastering complex systems programming languages through personal projects.
I'm new to Rust and thought that a very pratical way to get in touch with it was writing something. I've thought of writing my own .md to .html compiler for for a while. So here we are, both my micro-blog and my project have come to life. Before even thinking of writing it, I was using Hugo . It was really nice, but you know, sometimes it's just too much, I just wanted a very simple thing, not taking a lifetime choosing a theme and other stuff, or maybe as a SWE I thought I could just build it myself , and after 12-13 hours of my not really spare time I came eventually with something.
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