Beginner with Rust: a thing it does better than ANSI C
In C enum defines a set of named options and associates integer values to them. I often use enums for labeling types of structs. For example: typedef enum { QUIT, MOVE, WRITE, CHANGECOLOR } msgtype_t; By default, the first label gets value 0 while its successor gets value <prev value +1> unless specified otherwise. In Rust an enum label can have any valid Rust type, including scalar types, functions, and custom types. Therefore in Rust it is possible to define the message type as follows: enum msg_t { Quit, Move { x: i32, y: i32 }, Write(String), ChangeColor(i32, i32, i32), } Compared to ANSI C, this is a great benefit. There are many possible ways to implement the above in C but here's one example: typedef enum { QUIT, MOVE, WRITE, CHANGECOLOR } msg_type_t; typedef struct move_msg_st { int x; int y; } move_msg_t; typedef struct write_msg_st { char* msg_str; } write_msg_t; typedef struct change_color_msg_st {