Rust

A multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language, with no runtime and garbage collector.

Resources

• Official Getting Start Guide
  • A getting start guide provided by the official Rust team
• Command Line Rust
  • Replicating 14 command line tools in Rust with clap crate
  • Emphasize test-driven development
  • All the code is available on GitHub
  • In my opinion, a pretty good way to get started on Rust for people with some programming experience
  • It gradually introduces the key concepts and the standard library in each chapter

Site

• rust-lang.org
  • Official website of Rust
  • Contains links to the getting start book and the playground

Links

Guides

• Nothing in Rust
  • Possible "nothing" state in rust, like null in other languages
  • PhantomData, Option::None, empty tuple, never type
• Getting Past "Ampersand-Drive Development" in Rust (Lobster)
  • The difference between self, mut self, &self, &mut self
  • Reference-counted pointer Rc and atomically reference-counted pointer Arc

Blogs

• Switching From C++ to Rust (Lobster)
  • Comparing from the perspective of the build system, the compiler, and the type system