Born in ‘92, I spent a lot of my teens connecting with people through MSN Messenger. Anyone my age remembers nudges and xX-Pixel-Xx style names. While playing Old School RuneScape, I got nostalgic for those days. I’d also always wanted to learn Rust. 1+1 happens to be 2.
MSN’t is a small MSN Messenger revival for 5-20 friends, with my own client and server written in Rust. It’s my first Rust project, and I’m building it step by step: from a simple text chat to statuses, “is typing…”, and of course nudges.
Starting a project like this without prior Rust knowledge meant going back to basics first. This practice code covers the fundamentals: reading user input, cleaning it up with .trim(), and responding with if/else. It’s the first tiny step toward a chat app.