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Welcome to the exploring-rust wiki!

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The aim of this wiki is to list out the key points and differences found while exploring rust-lang and its features through the mentioned book in the rust lang docs, or various other sources on the internet like blogs, reddit etc.
The reddit page for rust lang is here

Although mentioned before, I'll list out the useful resources and/or tools etc. in this list and keep adding the new ones:

Books/text-based tutorials

1. Official book (free) -> http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
2. Rust by example (free) -> http://rustbyexample.com/
3. Diving into Rust for the first time by mozilla hacks

References

1. Official reference -> https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference.html
2. Wikipedia -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
3. Webcast at oreilly (free)The Rust Programming Language: Fast, Safe, and Beautiful
4. Video from lang.next representatives for four systems programming languages - C++, Rust, D, and Go - assembled for a Q & A panel

Trying out rust (playground/online compiler)

1. Rust Playground -> https://play.rust-lang.org/

Connecting with the community

1. Rust-lang reddit page -> https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/
2. Github official repo -> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
3. Rust-lang organisation repo -> https://github.com/rust-lang
4. Twitter -> https://twitter.com/rustlang
5. User Forum -> https://users.rust-lang.org/
6. IRC -> https://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23rust
7. Code of conduct

Blogs and other resources

1. The Rust Programming Language Blog
2. Not that bad, must read before you decide to dive in. Also you get to know about a lot of things worth knowing Criticising the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die
3. Throw away lightweight processes from Rust
4. Good read, mostly positive (pros, cons, GC, rust vs. others etc.) -> Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language
5. Hot and interesting Go and Rust: The road ahead for two young programming languages
6. HTML rendering engine written in rust, to take advantage of the parallelism inherent in modern hardware. -> The Servo Parallel Browser Project
7. Rust Never Sleeps: How Mozilla Could Become Cool Again, again about the potentials of rust
8. Words of a long-time rust programmer A Fresh Look at Rust
9. Why is Mozilla developing the Rust language and what are the problem areas for which it is better suited than conventional languages? How does it compare to other system languages?

Embedding/ FFI

1. Calling rust functions from python code Dan Callahan - My Python's a little Rust-y - PyCon 2015