building whatever I want | project ideas: easy, med, hard
I’ve officially wrapped up my first beginner Rust project (the weather CLI), and now it’s time to dive even deeper. For my second project, I’m moving away from straightforward APIs and diving into something a bit more fundamental: building a shell from scratch.
In this video, I’m breaking down my roadmap for scaling the difficulty of my Rust projects. We're talking about why I chose to build a shell, how I’m using CodeCrafters to guide the process, and the other "mid-size" project ideas I was considering like browser extensions, a YouTube-DL wrapper, and AI-assisted tab completions.
I also share my long-term plan for mastering the fundamentals, including building a load balancer, an interpreter, and eventually, a compiler.
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Chapters:
00:00 - What's next
00:15 - Exploring Mid-Size Project Ideas
00:40 - Overengineering a Browser Extension?
01:05 - AI-Assisted Tab Completions & Skill Issues
01:35 - Building a Dash/Zeal Alternative
02:18 - The Reality of "Simple" Projects
02:50 - My Roadmap: Scaling the Difficulty
03:11 - Project 2: Building a Shell from Scratch?
04:07 - How You Can Follow Along
04:27 - Future Goals: Load Balancers & Interpreters
04:58 - Community Votes
05:15 - More Info About CodeCrafters
06:25 - Let's go
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