Allows to try rust in Jupyter notebook. Implemented via line/cell magics:

1. Install rust and jupyter-notebook

2. cargo install cargo-script

3. pip install rust-magic

4. Enjoy :)

are supported via normal cargo script syntax (see below for a more compact notation):

can be provided in the cell mode:

NB Here's a copy-pastable form of all the examples above.

To enable rust syntax highlighting in %%rust cells run the following snippet in a python jupyter cell:

from notebook.services.config import ConfigManager
c = ConfigManager()
c.update('notebook', {"CodeCell": {"highlight_modes": {"text/x-rustsrc": {"reg": ["^%%rust"]}}}})

This only needs to be run once: it stores the setting in a config file in home directory.

Jupyter "doesn't like" long cells: when a cell gets longer than the screen its output is not readily visible. Here're a few ways how to handle the problem with rust_magic:

a) putting dependencies into a separate cell (more)

b) collapsing function bodies with codefolding jupyter extension

c) putting function definitions into separate cells (more)

can be acheived by caching dependencies compile results with sccache. Rust-magic automatically uses it if it is installed in the system (cargo install sccache).