Rust

A few years ago, to better understand ray tracing, I read the book Ray Tracing in One Weekend. The original code samples were in C++, and as I read, I was translating and writing them in Python. Yes, I knew from the start that it was a terrible idea, but I was curious. One of the best ways to observe Python’s performance inadequacy is to test the ray tracing algorithm by generating an image with a width of 1000 pixels. But even 300 pixels takes a lot of time. Therefore, you resort to alternative solutions such as interoperability, multiprocessing, or GPU usage. This appeared as a fun and extra task that I had to solve while learning ray tracing. ...

When dealing with more than one language, we look for similar approaches across languages. In Rust, there’s a keyword called enum to define and use enumerations. It’s easy to use, let’s look at this example from the official document: enum IpAddrKind { V4, V6, } struct IpAddr { kind: IpAddrKind, address: String, } let home = IpAddr { kind: IpAddrKind::V4, address: String::from("127.0.0.1"), }; let loopback = IpAddr { kind: IpAddrKind::V6, address: String::from("::1"), }; If we want to write this code in Python, we can define two classes and two variables simply. Let’s start with a simple alternative first: ...