rust-learning

A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Rust. Feel free to submit a pull request if you have some links/resources to add. Also, I try to verify that the articles below have some real content (i.e. aren't 2 paragraph blog posts with little information) to ensure I'm not listing "fluff" pieces. If you have an idea for a better way to organize these links, please let me know.

Introduction

The main documentation is always the best beginning, so if you haven't read yet, start by reading Rust docs. You also have an ebook version of the doc.

Tags meanings

• [official] Something made by a mozilla worker in a mozilla context
• [old] Concepts are still useful but code could not compile.
• [WIP] Work In Progress

Table of Contents

• Books
• Videos
• Rust in practice
• Courses
• Best Practices/Style Guides
• Cheat sheets
• RFCs
• Code Organization
• Compilation
• CI / Testing
• Comparison with Other Languages
• Applications / Libraries / Tools
• Language stuff
  • Closures
  • Enums
  • Iterators
  • Lifetime
  • Macros
  • Monads
  • Ownership / Concurrency
  • Strings
  • Syntax extensions
  • Traits
  • Unsafe
• People
  • Famous Rustacean Bloggers

Books

• [official] The Rust Programming Language book
• Rust Essentials - Ivo Balbaert
• [WIP] Programming Rust - Jim Blandy

Videos

You can watch Rust's meetups at air.mozilla

• [official] Stanford Seminar - Aaron Turon
• OReilly's Programming in Rust - Jim Blandy
• My Python's a little Rust-y - Dan Callahan
• Rustlang Screencasts - J M Archer
• [old] [official] Intro to the Rust programming language - Alex Crichton

Rust in practice

• [official] [WIP] rustbyexample - Jorge Aparicio and Steve Klabnik
• rosettacode - Andrew Hobden
• ProjectEulerRust - gifnksm

Courses

• [old] RustTutorial - aml3

Best Practices/Style Guides

• [official] [WIP] Rust Guidelines
• Error Handling in Rust - Andrew Gallant

Cheat sheets

• The Periodic Table of Rust Types - Kang Seonghoon
• Rust Iterator Cheat Sheet - Daniel Keep

RFCs

See Rust RFCs

Code Organization

None

Compilation

• Rust on OpenWRT (cross compiling to mips-linux-gnu) - Jorge Aparicio

CI / Testing

• Helping Travis catch the rustc train part 1 | part 2 - Huon Wilson
• Rust, Travis, and Github Pages - Andrew Hobden

Comparison with Other Languages

• Rust for Rubyists - Steve Klabnik
• [old] Rust for C++ Programmers - Nick Cameron
• A Swift guide to Rust - sealedabstract
• A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust - Arthur Liao
• Rust's Ownership model for JavaScript developers - Christoph Burgdorf
• Fizzbuzz: Rust vs Python - Chris Morgan
• A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go - Manish Goregaokar
• Rust for Python Programmers - Armin Ronacher

Applications / Libraries / Tools

See the awesome repo kud1ing/awesome-rust

Language stuff

Closures

• Finding Closure in Rust - Huon Wilson
• Defaulting to Thread-Safety: Closures and Concurrency - Huon Wilson

Enums

• Virtual Structs Part 1: Where Rust’s Enum Shines - Niko Matsakis

Iterators

• A Journey into Iterators - Andrew Hobden

Lifetime

• Where Rust Really Shines - Manish Goregaokar

Macros

• A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust 1.0 - Daniel Keep

Monads

• Option Type part 1 | part 2 - 8thlight
• [old] Option Monads in Rust - Andrew Hobden

Ownership / Concurrency

• [official] Fearless Concurrency with Rust - Aaron Turon
• Rust ownership, the hard way - Chris Morgan
• An alternative introduction to Rust - Steve Klabnik
• The Problem With Single-threaded Shared Mutability - Manish Goregaokar
• Wrapper Types in Rust: Choosing Your Guarantees - Manish Goregaokar

Strings

• String vs &str in Rust functions part 1 | part 2 - Herman J. Radtke III

Syntax extensions

• Syntax extensions and regular expressions for Rust - Andrew Gallant
• How to Write a Rust Syntax Extension - Gulshan Singh

Traits

• [official] Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust - Aaron Turon
• A series on trait objects part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 - Huon Wilson
• Rust traits for developer friendly libraries - Ben Ashford

Unsafe

• Unsafe Rust: An Intro and Open Questions - Alexis Beingessner

People

This is the official Rust Team and Servo Team

You search for a rustacean ? http://www.rustaceans.org/

Famous Rustacean Bloggers

• Andrew Gallant - blog
• Andrew Hobden - blog
• Brian Anderson - blog
• Christoph Burgdorf - blog
• Chris Morgan - blog
• Felix S Klock II - blog
• Huon Wilson - blog
• Manish Goregaokar - blog
• Nick Cameron - blog
• Niko Matsakis - blog
• Patrick Walton - blog
• Yehuda Katz - blog
• Steve Klabnik - blog

Don't forget Ferris the unofficial mascot.