How I helped a bootcamp grad pass a Rust take-home in 90 minutes (opens in new tab)  🦀Rust

A bootcamp grad came into a session recently with the kind of panic I recognize immediately. They had a Rust take-home due the next morning. The prompt was not huge: read a list of jobs from an API, normalize the results, spawn a small async task to fetch details for each job, and return a filtered summary. In JavaScript, they would have finished it in an afternoon. In Rust, they had been stuck for three days. By the time we met, the code technically had most of the right pieces: reqwest, tok...