The Story Behind rspad

The cargo new Graveyard A few months ago, I started grinding LeetCode in Rust. Coming from TypeScript & Go, my muscle memory kept hunting for a scratchpad, something like RunJS or a terminal REPL where you test a 15-line slice manipulation and immediately see what happens. In Rust, I kept hitting the same friction loop: cargo new leetcode_xyz -> paste into src/main.rs -> cargo run. In less than weeks’ time, my drive had filled with folders for temporary use and huge folders of target/. It seemed insane having to scaffold a whole project to check small syntax. ...

26 September 2026 · 2 min · 374 words · Pratik Sah