Rust for Rustaceans

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1. nritchieMay 2026
   Not true for everyone. I learned Rust from The Rust Programming Language ("The Rust Book") and "Rust for Rustaceans." Sure, coming from C/C++, I could have learned the syntax online but learning best idioms and styles required the time and commitment to read a book cover-to-cover. In fact, I've probably read each page in "Rust for Rustaceans" at least twice to ensure that I understood some of the more subtle points. I could have developed a half-baked notion of how the borrow-checker worked by fooling around and reading blurbs on Stack Exchange. But Rust for Rustaceans made clear the more subtle points that might have taken years of tinkering to understand. Thank goodness people still write excellent books on computer programming.
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2. kshri24Mar 2025
   In this order:

   1. The Rust Book (Free) - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

   2. Rust by Example (Free) - https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/

   3. Rust Atomics and Locks - https://marabos.nl/atomics/

   4. Rust in Action - https://www.rustinaction.com/

   5. Rust for Rustaceans - https://rust-for-rustaceans.com/

   Also Jon Gjengset's channel is immensely valuable: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset

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3. akkad33Mar 2025
   What do you think about Rust for Rustaceans? I read it and there are very niche and useful information there about Rust that I didn't see anywhere. It's a solid book but for a book about programming there are so few real code examples that it can come off dry. I just bought Rust atomic and locks and it seems exercise based, so I'm excited to finish it. The first chapter seems promising
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4. minute_forestMar 2024
   Just go for it and let the compiler tell you where you're wrong and guide you to something that compiles. If you can already program you'll pick up the other concepts in no time.

   For example instead of taking a high level language view of a var containing a piece of data, you'll begin to visualize a variable points to a place in memory with data associated to it, and can work from there whether you want to move, borrow, or drop it. Lifetimes lets the compiler know how long should that point in memory last within the program before being dropped. But most of the time you don't have to worry about it thanks to lifetime elision.

   "The Book" is the best place to start, then there's Rust by Example that shows code snippets. The Reference goes into the why. Rust for Rustaceans helped me understand how to put projects together, but if you like reading source code of different crates you'll see a pattern that they follow. Blessed.rs is a website for the most popular go-to crates in the ecosystem. Reading the std lib is also good to see what already exists instead of reinventing the wheel.

   I came from an Elixir background so things like immutability and pattern matching already made sense. What great about rust IMO is the type system, programming with structs and traits, and knowing that if it compiles it should for the most part work if there's no logic bugs.

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5. jamincanJan 2023
   Rust for Rustaceans is a good book that covers some of this, but is definitely not recommended for beginner Rust users.
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6. cfcostaNov 2022
   The Rust Book is the best introduction I think. Then, Rust for Rustaceans[1] might be the best intermediate to advanced rust book I've ever seen.

   Don't forget to practice and work on real projects, the concepts take a little bit to get used to, and just reading about it is not enough.

   [1]: https://nostarch.com/rust-rustaceans

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