Chapter 2: Intermediate

From now on we will be porting a “real” C application: the bm bookmark manager CLI. We will learn how to approach real-world codebases, structure our approach, and debug our code when it breaks.

In this chapter we’ll pick our first module to rewrite, learn how C and Rust allocators (don’t) mix, debug across the language boundary with lldb/gdb, harden our unsafe code with Clippy lints, replace C-isms with Rust-isms, catch undefined behavior with Miri, and benchmark the port against the C baseline.

Exercises

The exercises for this section are located in exercises/02_intermediate

Exercise

The exercise for this section is located in 02_intermediate/00_README