What’s so hard about writing a Slack Client in Rust? (Matthias Endler)

“I’ll just write a simple API wrapper for that. Give me two hours.” Does that sound oddly familiar? Don’t be fooled: writing an easy to use, idiomatic abstraction layer is a lot of work - in any language. I want to tell you my story about writing a Slack client in Rust. From documentation to testing and error handling there’s a lot of pitfalls to avoid and laughs to share.