I come from C++. In C++ we have std library and one of the "modules" in that library is "module" called algorithm which is basically a collection of different algorithms that can be used on virtually every collection from std library. Does something like this exists in rust or in rust this is achieved differently? And how if that's the case?
The algorithms are generally a bit more scattered around the standard library. Algorithms you can perform on any sequence of values are found on iterators. Algorithms you can perform on things with random access are provided on the slice types. Some collections have more algorithms on them, e.g. BTreeSet has things like union.
Not really. I think lots of those algorithms exists in the Iterator trait, (filter, map, fold, etc). Others (such as sort) are implemented for slice, which makes them availiable on Vec etc.
(@alice wrote apprixmatley the same thing at approximatly the same time, ah well)
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