It's now been 3 years since the first commit to the turtle crate! Turtle is a @rustlang library that allows you to create fun and interesting animated drawings! It's a great tool for teaching/learning Rust. Here's a preview of some of the things that happened this year! (THREAD)
It's now been 3 years since the first commit to the turtle crate! Turtle is a @rustlang library that allows you to create fun and interesting animated drawings! It's a great tool for teaching/learning Rust. Here's a preview of some of the things that happened this year! (THREAD)
The turtle crate would not continue to exist without all the people who contribute to it! We've had 18 people contribute to the library over the last few years, with many of them coming back again and again to help out more. Every contributed bug fix and example helps a lot!
Some stats: * 15,193 LOC (incl. comments) * 13 releases * 920 commits * 91 GitHub issues (with many tagged "good first issue"!) * 393 GitHub stars and 33 forks * ~6,500 downloads on crates.io * 131 unit tests + 143 doctests
Some stats: * 15,193 LOC (incl. comments) * 13 releases * 920 commits * 91 GitHub issues (with many tagged "good first issue"!) * 393 GitHub stars and 33 forks * ~6,500 downloads on crates.io * 131 unit tests + 143 doctests
.@myrrlyn contributed an excellent example that draws any n-pointed star. You can find out how it works by reading the comments in the example code! ⭐️
.@myrrlyn contributed an excellent example that draws any n-pointed star. You can find out how it works by reading the comments in the example code! ⭐️
.@timClicks led a #rustlang tutorial where they taught people how to create some procedurally generated art using the turtle crate. 🖌️
.@timClicks led a #rustlang tutorial where they taught people how to create some procedurally generated art using the turtle crate. 🖌️
.@myrrlyn also came back and created an example using the @bitvec_rs crate to visualize different bit orderings. Check out the source code: github.com/sunjay/turtle/…
We released v1.0.0-rc.3! 🎉 Check out some of the highlights here:
We released v1.0.0-rc.3! 🎉 Check out some of the highlights here: