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• A 30-minute Intro to Rust
• The Rust tutorial (* PDF)
• The Rust reference manual (* PDF)

Guides

• Strings
• Pointers
• References and Lifetimes
• Containers and Iterators
• Tasks and Communication
• Foreign Function Interface
• Writing Safe Unsafe and Low-Level Code
• Macros
• Testing
• Rust's Runtime

FAQs

• Language Design FAQ
• Language FAQ
• Project FAQ
• How to submit a bug report

Libraries

• The standard library, std

• The arena allocation library
• The collections library
• The flate compression library
• The fourcc four-character code library
• The getopts argument parsing library
• The glob file path matching library
• The green M:N runtime library
• The hexfloat library for hexadecimal floating-point literals
• The libc bindings
• The native 1:1 threading runtime
• The num arbitrary precision numerics library
• The rand library for random numbers and distributions
• The regex library for regular expressions
• The rustc compiler
• The rustuv M:N I/O library
• The semver version collation library
• The serialize value encoding/decoding library
• The sync library for concurrency-enabled mechanisms and primitives
• The syntax library, the Rust parser
• The term terminal-handling library
• The test library containing the unit-testing & micro-benchmark framework
• The time library
• The uuid 128-bit universally unique identifier library
• The url library
• The log library

Tooling

• The rustdoc manual

External documentation

Note: While these are great resources for learning Rust, they may track a particular version of Rust that is likely not exactly the same as that for which this documentation was generated.

• Rust for Rubyists - An excellent introduction for Rust; not just for Rubyists (tracks the most recent release).
• Rust by Example - Short examples of common tasks in Rust (tracks the master branch).
• The Rust wiki

Community

• Reddit
• Stack Overflow
• The Rust IRC channels on irc.mozilla.org:
  • #rust - general discussion
  • #rust-gamedev - game development
  • #rust-internals - compiler and libraries
  • #rust-osdev - operating system development