The Rust Programming Language

What is Rust useful for?

• Serverless Functions
• CLIs, especially targeting JS
• "systems programming"
• WASM applications
• Speeding up complicated parts of other languages (ruby/elixir/node/etc)

Where to start learning?

I created a set of videos that take you through Rustlings

Rust Books

• The Rust Book (Start here)

More advanced/intermediate books:

• Cargo
• Rust/WASM
• Macros
• Async Rust
• The Unstable Book
• The Rustc dev guide

Egghead planning

• Installing Rust with Rustup
• Your First Rust Program
• Applying Cargo to your First Rust Program

Cargo

• Check vs Build

Paths

• language path
• Build CLI tools with Structopt
  • Building a csv processor
• Working with files, directories, and paths
  • std::fs
  • mkdir -p
  • windows paths
  • Path and PathBuf
• std::collections
• Error handling
  • Option
  • Result
  • Error types
  • eyre! and color_eyre