Generating sound — a mini project in Rust

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A few months ago, I started falling in love with Rust. It’s a beautifully designed, robust systems programming language backed by a lovely helping community (Rustaceans), ingenious compiler features, and rapidly growing adaptation.

The key reasons that made me find Rust so compelling:

• Performance: The zero-cost abstractions, like the ownership and borrowing mechanism, offer you memory safety and high-level features that compile to efficient machine code without extra runtime cost.
• Safety: The Rust compiler makes your code safe by performing intelligent analysis and linting at compile time, preventing most basic errors.
• Usability: Rust is a good fit for all projects, from embedded programming to high-level applications. Thanks to the fantastic community, many crates have got you covered!

Overview

My mini-project idea started as something even smaller. I was exploring different types of functions and trying to plot their graphs using other languages. Since I am now learning Rust, it also entered the experiment queue.

In this article, I’ll present the wave plotter and sound generator crates combined into a single package.