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A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Rust

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

Do you need to be convinced that Rust worth learning? Let us show you the True Nature of the Force

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

Tags meanings

• ⭐ Something made by a rust team member.
• 🔚 Concepts are still useful but code could not compile.
• 🔜 Work In Progress.

Table of Contents

• Books
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Rust in practice
• Best Practices/Style Guides
• Cheat sheets
• RFCs
• Compilation
• CI / Testing
• Comparison with Other Languages
• Applications / Libraries / Tools
• Language stuff
  • Closures
  • Enums
  • Iterators
  • Lifetime
  • Macros
  • MIR
  • Monads
  • Ownership / Concurrency
  • Strings
  • Syntax extensions
  • Traits
  • Unsafe
• Locale links
• People
  • Famous Rustacean Bloggers
• Tutorials & Workshop Materials

Books

• ⭐ The Rust Programming Language 1st edition - repo
• 🔜 ⭐ The Rust Programming Language 2nd edition - repo (Paper edition)
• ⭐ The Rust Reference - repo
• ⭐ The Rustonomicon - The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming - repo
• ⭐ The Unstable Book - repo
• ⭐ Why Rust? - Jim Blandy
• Rust-101 - Ralf Jung
• Rust Essentials - Ivo Balbaert
• 🔜 Programming Rust - Jim Blandy
• 🔜 Rust Programming Step-by-Step - Carlo Milanesi

Videos

You can watch Rust's meetups at air.mozilla

• ⭐ Stanford Seminar - Aaron Turon
• ⭐ Rust: Safe and Scalable Systems Programming - Alex Crichton
• ⭐ RustCamp 2015
• ⭐ The History of Rust - Steve Klabnik
• ⭐ OReilly's Programming in Rust - Jim Blandy
• My Python's a little Rust-y - Dan Callahan
• ⭐ What Is Rust? - Yehuda Katz
• Rustlang Screencasts - J M Archer
• LambdaConf 2015 - In Rust We Trust - Alex Burkhart
• ⭐ into_rust() - Screencasts for learning rust! - Niko Matsakis
• Rust Programming Tutorial - ABitWiseGuy
• ⭐ Rust and the Future of Systems Programming - Mozilla
• Mozilla's Rust and why we love it - Cambridge Consultants
• ​Rust 101 - E. Dunham

Podcasts

• Rusty radio - Alex Newman
• New Rustacean - Chris Krycho

Rust in practice

• ⭐ rustbyexample - Jorge Aparicio and Steve Klabnik
• rosettacode - Andrew Hobden
• Why your first FizzBuzz implementation may not work - Chris Morgan
• ⭐ An annotation of the Rust standard library - Brian Anderson
• ProjectEulerRust - gifnksm
• Advent of Code - Denys Levchenko
• Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch - Nikita Baksalyar
• ⭐ rustlings: small rust exercises - Carol Nichols
• Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists - Alexis Beingessner
• The Rust FFI Omnibus - Jake Goulding
• ⭐ Let's build a browser engine! - Matt Brubeck
• Understanding Over Guesswork - Andrew Hobden
• Writing an OS in Rust - Philipp Oppermann
• Creating Nintendo 64 emulator from scratch in Rust! - Jake Taylor
• The Many Kinds of Code Reuse in Rust - Alexis Beingessner
• Make a Lisp - Joel Martin
• ⭐ Modeling Graphs in Rust Using Vector Indices - Niko Matsakis
• Rust basics and beyond | part 2 | part 3 - Dumindu Madunuwan
• 24 days of Rust series - Zbigniew Siciarz
• ⭐ Rust Cookbook
• ⭐ Rust and CSV Parsing - Andrew Gallant

Best Practices/Style Guides

• ⭐ Rust Design Patterns - Nick Cameron
• ⭐ Error Handling in Rust - Andrew Gallant
• Reading Rust Function Signatures - Andrew Hobden
• Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries - Pascal Hertleif
• Rustic Bits - Llogiq
• Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust - Andrew Hobden
• Elegant Library APIs in Rust - Pascal Hertleif
• ⭐ Rust API guidelines - Brian Anderson

Cheat sheets

• ⭐ Syntax Index
• The Periodic Table of Rust Types - Kang Seonghoon
• Rust Iterator Cheat Sheet - Daniel Keep
• Rust String Conversions Cheat Sheet - GavinB
• Rustic Symmetries - kmc

RFCs

See Rust RFCs

Compilation

• rust-cross, Everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs! - Jorge Aparicio
• How to cross compile Rust from OS X to FreeBSD - yohanesu75
• Cross Compiling for Raspberry Pi - Ogeon
• ⭐ Taking Rust everywhere with rustup - Brian Anderson
• Why is a Rust executable large? - Kang Seonghoon
• Using Rust in Windows - Jonathan Turner
• Rust your ARM microcontroller! - Jorge Aparicio

CI / Testing

• Helping Travis catch the rustc train part 1 | part 2 - Huon Wilson
• Rust, Travis, and Github Pages - Andrew Hobden
• Shave Some Time From Your Travis Builds - Llogiq
• How to collect test coverages for a rust project - lifthrasiir
• Rust Code Coverage Guide: kcov + Travis CI + Codecov / Coveralls - Sunjay Varma
• Rust Performance Testing on Travis CI - Lloyd
• Ensuring Beautiful Commits with rustfmt and Travis-CI - Kyle Kneitinger

Comparison with Other Languages

• Rust::from(lang) - Michael Gattozzi
• Others:

Languages	Links
C#	Exploring Rust (from C#) - Nicholas Blumhardt
C/C++	Rust for C++ Programmers - Nick Cameron On rust's memory management. Mainly for C/C++ programmers - Robert I used to use pointers - now what? - diwic
Clojure	Rust for Clojurists - Zach Oakes
Go	A Rust Contributor Tries Their Hand at Go - Manish Goregaokar
Java/Scala	Comparing Rust and Java - Llogiq A light comparison between Rust and Java generics and type system features. - Marvin Löbel Rust: A Scala Engineer's Perspective - Lloyd
JavaScript	Rust's Ownership model for JavaScript developers - Christoph Burgdorf Rust for Node developers - Donald Pipowitch
Nim	A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust - Arthur Liao
OCaml / Haskell	Rust for functional programmers
Python	Rust for Python Programmers - Armin Ronacher
Ruby	Rust for Rubyists - Steve Klabnik
Swift	A Swift guide to Rust - sealedabstract Rust and Swift - Chris Krycho

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
• How to pass a closure into a trait object - Cam Jackson
• Practical differences between Rust closures and functions - Ricardo Martins
• ⭐ How Rust Achieves Thread Safety - Manish Goregaokar

Documentation

• ⭐ Writing Documentation in Rust - Jeremiah Peschka

Enums

• ⭐ Virtual Structs part 1 | part 2 | part 3 - Niko Matsakis

Iterators

• A Journey into Iterators - Andrew Hobden
• Effectively Using Iterators In Rust - Herman J. Radtke III
• for loops in Rust - Karol Kuczmarski
• Iteration patterns for Result & Option - Karol Kuczmarski
• Little tour of multiple iterators implementation in Rust - Guillaume Gomez

Lifetime

• ⭐ Where Rust Really Shines - Manish Goregaokar
• Understanding Lifetime in Rust part 1 | part 2 - Bibhas Bhattacharya
• Rust Lifetimes - Charles

Macros

• A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust 1.0 - Daniel Keep
• The Little Book of Rust Macros - Daniel Keep
• ⭐ Macros in Rust part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 - Nick Cameron
• How do I use the Standard Library Macros in Rust? - Michael Gattozzi

MIR

• ⭐ Introducing MIR - Niko Matsakis

Monads

• Option Type part 1 | part 2 - 8thlight
• 🔚 Option Monads in Rust - Andrew Hobden
• Russian Dolls and clean Rust code - Michael Gattozzi

Ownership / Concurrency

• ⭐ 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
• Strategies for solving 'cannot move out of' borrowing errors in Rust - Herman J. Radtke III
• Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard - Ivan Sagalaev
• & vs. ref in Rust patterns - Karol Kuczmarski
• Interior mutability in Rust: what, why, how? | part 2 | part 3 - Ricardo Martins
• ⭐ Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket - Yehuda Katz
• Understanding Lifetimes in Rust, part 1 | part 2 - Bibhas Bhattacharya
• Some Notes on Send and Sync - Huon Wilson
• Sharing Coloring Books With Friends in Rust - Jeena Lee
• Moving, Cloning, and Copying Coloring Books in Rust - Jeena Lee

Privacy

• ⭐ Structure literals vs constructors in Rust - Steve Klabnik

Strings

• String vs &str in Rust functions part 1 | part 2 | part 3 - Herman J. Radtke III
• From &str to Cow - Joe Wilm
• How do I convert a &str to a String in Rust? - Michael Gattozzi

Syntax extensions

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

Traits

• ⭐ 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
• Traits and trait objects - Matt Godbolt
• Rust's Built-in Traits, the When, How & Why - Llogiq
• Where are you From::from - Llogiq
• ⭐ Going down the rabbit hole with Rust traits - Jonathan Turner
• Gentle Intro to Type-level Recursion in Rust - Lloyd Chan

Unsafe

• Unsafe Rust: An Intro and Open Questions - Alexis Beingessner
• Memory Leaks are Memory Safe - Huon Wilson
• ⭐ On Reference Counting and Leaks - Niko Matsakis
• ⭐ A Few More Remarks on Reference Counting and Leaks - Niko Matsakis
• Pre-pooping Your Pants With Rust - Alexis Beingessner
• ⭐ Unsafe Abstractions - Niko Matsakis
• ⭐ The "Tootsie Pop" Model for Unsafe Code - Niko Matsakis

Playground

• Rust Playground
• alternative

Locale links

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese
• Danish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Spanish
• Turkish

People

This is the official Rust Team and Servo Team

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

You want to meet them IRL ? Meetup groups, Community calendar, Community talks list

Go to rusty events ? RustCamp, RustFest, RustConf, Rust Belt Rust

You are looking for a job ? Rust Jobs, Awesome Rust Jobs

You want to stay up to date ? This Week in Rust, This Week in Rust Docs, The official reddit and Planet Rust

There is also The Rust Community Blog

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
• Jonathan Turner - blog
• Llogiq - 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.

Tutorials & Workshop Materials

These are slides and materials from brick-and-mortar workshops about Rust. While they're unlikely to help a student learning independently, they may be of interest if you're running a workshop on Rust.

• Niko Matsakis's rust tutorializer framework
• Niko Matsakis's ownership, borrowing, traits, structs, and threading tutorials, keynote files
• Niko Matsakis's concurrency tutorial from December 2015
• Niko Matsakis's Mozlando Tutorial includes slides and play.rust-lang.org demos
• Jim Blandy's exercises
• Dan Callahan's Python Rust FFI examples
• Nick Cameron's oopsla slides and exercises
• Florian Gilcher's mailbox tutorial takes Hello World to a whole new concurrent and networked level
• Carol Nichols' Intro to Rust that presents the guessing game and ownership in a similar manner as the book
• Jonathan Pallant's Rust on the Raspberry Pi tutorial (using a the Sense HAT)

A few universities have had classes about Rust. Here are links to their public resources.

• University of Pennsylvania CIS 198: Rust Programming, Spring 2016, Rust 1.6. Slides linked from Schedule page.
• Northwestern University EECS 3/495: Concurrent Programming in Rust, Winter 2016, Rust 1.6. Slides linked from Schedule page.