Rust Idioms

What it does

This skill provides suggestions for idiomatic Rust code solutions based on established best practices from the Rust Community. It leverages a comprehensive guide containing 44 rules across eight categories, prioritizing improvements to readability and performance. The skill aims to assist with refactoring existing code and generating new Rust code that adheres to community-accepted patterns.

When to use it

• When writing new Rust code requiring strong type guarantees.
• During refactoring of ownership and borrowing patterns.
• While designing error handling strategies.
• When creating public APIs using traits and generics.
• To organize modules and control visibility within a project.

Key capabilities

• Suggests solutions based on 44 Rust refactoring rules.
• Covers categories including Type Safety, Ownership & Borrowing, Error Handling, API Design, Module Organization, Conversion Traits, Idiomatic Patterns, and Iterator/Collection usage.
• Prioritizes suggestions by impact (Critical, High, Medium-High, Medium, Low-Medium).
• Provides guidance on specific patterns like newtype patterns, Cow, the question mark operator (?), and trait derivation.

Example prompts

• "Suggest a more idiomatic way to handle this error."
• "How can I improve the ownership and borrowing in this code?"
• "What's the best practice for designing an API with traits?"

Tips & gotchas

• The skill’s suggestions are based on established community guidelines, but may not always be appropriate for every situation. Consider the context of your project when applying these recommendations.
• This skill focuses specifically on idiomatic Rust code; it is not a general-purpose coding assistant.