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Thanks for the shout out Jemaclus! What other challenges would you like to see?


That's a fun question. I'm not entirely sure. The only feature request I would have is maybe a few more hints or links to documentation. I'm learning Rust and tackling the Redis challenge, and I got stuck on one point because I don't know enough about how to parse strings in Rust. In Go or JS it would be very easy for me, but since I don't know Rust, I'm spending a ton of time poking around in some Rust tutorials and docs to find what I need.

But back to your original question, some random things that might be fun:

- A search engine (Elasticsearch?)

- A raytracer

- A LZW or GZIP compressor/decompressor

- IRC client/server

- Static blog generator (Hugo, Jekyll, etc)


Can second that those sound interesting to learn more about.




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