Getting started with Rust

Resources, tools, and code samples for learning Rust Programming Language

Books

• Must Read: The Book
• Must Read: Rust for Rustaceans
• Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development
• The Rust Programming Language
• Easy Rust

Courses & Workshops

• Comprehensive Rust - This is a free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling.
• Learn to write Rust procedural macros - Rust Latam conference, Montevideo Uruguay, March 2019.

Other resources

• This Week in Rust
• The Rust Reference
• Rust Collections
• Rust by Example
• Awesome Rust - a curated list of Rust code and resources
• Idiomatic Rust - a collection of articles/talks/repos which teach concise, idiomatic Rust
• The Rustonomicon - The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming
• The Rustonomicon - nightly - The Dark Arts of Unsafe Rust
• Algorithms implemented in Rust
• Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists
• Advice for learning Rust - Learning Rust
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory - explains the structure of memory subsystems in use on modern commodity hardware
• Personal blog of Luca Palmieri - has a good deal of useful stuff about Rust
• Code of conduct

Concurrency

• About Concurrency - what every systems programmer should know about concurrency
• Asynchronous Programming in Rust
• Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
• Async Rust Is A Bad Language

Benchmarking

• Benchmarking: Criterion

Tools

• Visual Studio Code
  • Recommended plugins:
    • rust-analyzer
    • CodeLLDB
    • Even Better TOML
    • crates
    • SQLTools
    • REST Client
    • Docker
  • Keyboard shortcuts:
    • Keyboard shortcuts for Linux
    • Keyboard shortcuts for macOS
  • Boost Your Coding Fu With Visual Studio Code and Vim
• Take a look: RustRover - JetBrains IDE for Rust Developers
  • VSCode Theme - includes VSCode Dark+ and VSCode Dark Modern themes

Visual Studio Code - Debugging

• Install debugging support
• CodeLLDB

Also, try dbg!

dbg!(..);

Usage details and examples: std::dbg

Visual Studio Code - DEBUG CONSOLE (lldb)

>help
>v
>print a
>p &a
>x &a
>x 0x00555555597036
>x -c 256 0x00555555597036
>q

Code Coverage

Setting-up and using the cargo-llvm-cov based code coverage

$cargo +stable install cargo-llvm-cov --locked
$cargo llvm-cov
$cargo llvm-cov --html
$cargo llvm-cov --open 

Clippy

• Clippy - A collection of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code

List of code samples built for learning purposes

• Web Service: REST API
  • Getting started with Web Services in Rust (using axum, JWT, SQLx, PostgreSQL, and Redis)
• Cryptography
  • Magma Symmetric Cipher
  • RSA Asymmetric Cipher
• Tree and Parent-Child Relationship
  • Generic Tree
  • Binary Tree
  • Binary Search Tree
• Shortest Path: Dijkstra
• Fibonacci
• Palindrome