Rust Incubator

It wasn’t always so clear, but the Rust programming language is fundamentally about empowerment: no matter what kind of code you are writing now, Rust empowers you to reach farther, to program with confidence in a wider variety of domains than you did before.

Rust Book's Foreword

This project represents a hard-way step-by-step Rust learning course from language basics to a capability of web backend development.

Prerequisites

Toolchain

• rustup for installing Rust toolchain and keeping it up-to-date.
• CLion/IntelliJ IDEA + IntelliJ Rust + Toml plugins as development environment (or any other on your choice).

Bookshelf

• Rust Book teaches and explains Rust basics.
• Rust By Example teaches you Rust basics using editable examples.
• Rust Reference is not a formal spec, but is more detailed and comprehensive than the Rust Book.
• Cheats.rs and Rust SVG Cheatsheet for quick reference.
• Rust Edition Guide for considering improvements of Rust 2018 and Rust 2021.
• Rust std lib documentation.
• Cargo Book is a guide to Cargo, Rust's build tool and dependency manager.
• Rustdoc Book is a guide to rustdoc documentation tool.
• Rust Cookbook is a collection of simple examples that demonstrate good practices to accomplish common programming tasks, using the crates of the Rust ecosystem.
• Rust Design Patterns is an open source repository of Rust design patterns and idioms.
• Effective Rust is a collection of guidelines that had been learned from real world experience of creating software in Rust.
• Rust API Guidelines is a set of recommendations on how to design and present APIs for Rust.
• Rust FAQ answers common question about Rust.
• Rust Playground allows to share and check runnable Rust code snippets online.
• Awesome Rust is a curated list of Rust code and resources.
• This Week in Rust represents handpicked and subscribable Rust weekly updates.
• Baby Steps blog of Nicholas Matsakis shares useful Rust patterns, ideas and design decisions.
• Learning Material for Idiomatic Rust is a curated list of resources to help you write ergonomic and idiomatic Rust code.

Steps

Before you start

Create a new GitHub repository for yourself using this one as template.

NOTE: This learning course is constantly improving and evolving over time.

To be up-to-date with the recent changes in your own copy of this repository, attach the upstream history with the following commands:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/instrumentisto/rust-incubator.git
git fetch upstream main
git merge upstream/main --allow-unrelated-histories

And then, whenever you want to grab some new changes, do the following:

git fetch upstream main
git merge upstream/main

Additionally, to be aware about new changes, you may either watch this repository on GitHub, or even track it via RSS subscription.

Schedule

Each step must be performed as a separate PR (pull request) with an appropriate name and check-marked here in README's schedule after completion. Each step is a Cargo workspace member, so you can run/test it from the project root (i.e. cargo run -p step_1_8). Consider to use rustfmt and Clippy when you're writing Rust code.

• 0. Become familiar with Rust basics (3 days)
• 1. Concepts (2 days, after all sub-steps)
  • 1.1. Default values, cloning and copying (1 day)
  • 1.2. Boxing and pinning (1 day)
  • 1.3. Shared ownership and interior mutability (1 day)
  • 1.4. Clone-on-write (1 day)
  • 1.5. Conversions, casting and dereferencing (1 day)
  • 1.6. Static and dynamic dispatch (1 day)
  • 1.7. Sized and ?Sized types (1 day)
  • 1.8. Thread safety (1 day)
  • 1.9. Phantom types (1 day)
• 2. Idioms (2 days, after all sub-steps)
  • 2.1. Rich types ensure correctness (1 day)
  • 2.2. Swapping values with mem::replace (1 day)
  • 2.3. Bound behavior, not data (1 day)
  • 2.4. Abstract type in, concrete type out (1 day)
  • 2.5. Exhaustivity (1 day)
  • 2.6. Sealing (1 day)
• 3. Common ecosystem (2 days, after all sub-steps)
  • 3.1. Testing and mocking (1 day)
  • 3.2. Declarative and procedural macros (1 day)
  • 3.3. Date and time (1 day)
  • 3.4. Regular expressions and custom parsers (1 day)
  • 3.5. Collections and iterators (1 day)
  • 3.6. Serialization and deserialization (1 day)
  • 3.7. Randomness and cryptography (1 day)
  • 3.8. Logging and tracing (1 day)
  • 3.9. Command-line arguments, environment variables and configs (1 day)
  • 3.10. Multithreading and parallelism (1 day)
  • 3.11. Async I/O, futures and actors (2 days)
• 4. Backend ecosystem (3 days, after all sub-steps)
  • 4.1. Databases, connection pools and ORMs (1 day)
  • 4.2. HTTP servers and clients (1 day)
  • 4.3. API servers, clients and tools (1 day)

More practice

• rustlings are small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code.
• Rust on Exercism provides coding exercises with mentoring.
• Rust Quiz is medium to hard Rust questions with explanations.