Pascal Hertleif works as a freelance software developer and has been active in the Rust community since 2014. He is the author of multiple open source libraries and co-organizer of Rust Cologne. Currently, he is leading the CLI working group to deliver an awesome experience for writing command line apps with Rust. You might also know him as the MC at RustFest ZĂĽrich.
One of the secret ingredients in many successful, big code bases is that they found a good level of abstraction. One helpful technique is to write declarative code: You describe “what” you want to do, but don’t mix it with the “how”. While this is not specific to Rust, the language and its ecosystem help us write declarative code. This talk will go over some examples, covering famous crates and APIs as well as more obscure ones, to then dive into ways to use this to your advantage in your own code.