Rust Just Got An Awesome Update!

Welcome back! Rust is an awesome programming language with a ton of capability, if you’re new to Rust, check out the link below to learn more about it:

This is everything you need to know about Rust in 2022

Yesterday, the latest version of Rust actually came out, Rust 1.58! Check out the link below to see their entire release log of this update:

Announcing Rust 1.58.0 | Rust Blog

So, let’s talk about some of the newest changes to this update!

Capturing Identifiers In Formatted Strings

This new version of Rust brings a really cool feature, we now have the ability of capturing arguments by writing “{ident}”! Here is an example:

println!(“Hello, {}!”, get_person()); // implicit position 
println!(“Hello, {0}!”, get_person()); // explicit index 
println!(“Hello, {person}!”, person = get_person()); // named