Michael Krisher
4 min readJan 29, 2024

Rust Numbers in comparison to Ruby

In the last post, we discussed Strings. In this post, we are going to look at the differences between Ruby’ numbers and Rust’s various number types.

Numbers, either integers or floats, are pretty straightforward in Ruby. You simply declare the value and the interpreter will decide if it is an Integer or a Float. Example Ruby code below: