Happy New Year and welcome 2026. This is my first article of the year and I have embarked on a very interesting journey. And I am excited to share it with you. Keep reading.

Claude code is an AI coding tool operating within a terminal. It allows users to write, debug and manage code and/or AI tasks more efficiently, without going through an IDE. This typically enhances the AI interaction experience and is also quite light-weight. It also has a in-built “Agentic Loop” where the 3 phases (contextualization, action and verification) happens in a loop to provide for the most optimum output without detailed repetitive prompting. It also supports MCP, subagents, hooks, plugins and what have you.

Rust has been gaining a lot of positive attention in the developer community due to very many positive things. You can read more on Stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/20/what-is-rust-and-why-is-it-so-popular/) so I will avoid repetition on this blog.

Rust has fantastic support for basic str primitive (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.str.html) but there are typical things that are very hard to get a grip on when one jumps to Rust as a C/C++ developer. I was doing some exercisim.io for Rust and came across a nice exercise where a primitive str is passed to a function which is expected to return a Rust String with the contents reversed i.e. drawer as an input is reversed into reward as an out.