Traits & generics

Traits describe behavior a type provides. They feel partly like TypeScript interfaces, but implementation is explicit and coherence rules decide where impls may live. Planned exerc…

Rust leans on a small set of common traits: Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, and Hash. Derive is the idiomatic way to ask the compiler…

Rust generics are monomorphized and usually constrained with traits. TypeScript's generic syntax transfers conceptually, but Rust wants bounds where behavior is used. Planned exerc…

Rust has two styles of polymorphism: static dispatch with generics or impl Trait, and dynamic dispatch with dyn Trait. This theme teaches when each is appropriate and why trait…