awesome-rust-mentors VS book

Above all, don't be afraid to ask for help. Ask questions on /r/learnrust. Check out Awesome Rust Mentors and see if it's something you'd be interested in. Find a local user group or Uni or whatever that has experienced Rust programmers and try to make friends there. You're at the stage where asking questions is often the fast path.

The API guidelines will help you write nice APIs. Clippy will usually at least find some things, try running with -Wclippy::pedantic for a lot more messages. Also you can ask mentors for specific guidance. Hope that helps.

You really need to find a mentor for this project. May I suggest Awesome Rust Mentors https://rustbeginners.github.io/awesome-rust-mentors/ ?

Maybe try https://rustbeginners.github.io/awesome-rust-mentors/ ?

I'm a pretty highly motivated high school student and I've started doing projects and learning theory that would significantly benefit from mentorship to clarify things/answer obscure technical questions. Where can I look for someone that might be willing to help me out?

Shoutout to [rust mentors](https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors) for doing something similar but I'm looking for a more general site or social scene where people volunteer their time (ideally with an opportunity to give back and mentor someone else so I don't feel guilty)

My first port of call was to google learn rust which lead me to "the book". The book is a first steps guide written by the rust community for newbies (or Rustlings as they're called) to gain a 'solid grasp of the language'.

Before Prodzilla, I’d read 'The Book' a couple of times, and had made my way through Rustlings, but hadn’t yet built a serious project in Rust.

To answer your last question;

Start with the Rust book.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

Then do Rustlings until the syntax becomes muscle memory.

Then join the Discord and start doing little projects.

You won’t get up to the proficiency of other languages as quickly in Rust. It takes longer. For me it’s taking a lot longer, but I enjoy it.

Before diving into these repositories, familiarize yourself with Rust and its development ecosystem. The official Rust book is an excellent resource for developers at all levels. Each repository has documentation on how to contribute, covering code style, issue tracking, and pull requests.

This is my third Rust book after the official book and Rust in Action. The other two books are great, but they were too theoretical for me. I'm a slow learner and had much trouble grokking Rust's features and idiosyncrasies. When I was done with these books, I was lost and unsure of what I could do.

It's the same reason everything digital and downloadable isn't free: there's a cost to create it and there's a value to it.

For a language developer to charge for a book about that language, I think that's a completely valid way to make some money off of their work.

Even the Rust book, "The Rust Programming Language" is available freely online [0], but also as a print and ebook for sale via NoStarchPress [1].

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

[1] https://nostarch.com/rust-programming-language-2nd-edition

You know you can just read it online right now in 2 different variants It does contain some systems programming.

I am looking at The Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/), but hoped there was an amazing person on youtube.

Yeah, I'll build something, finally trying webassembly.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/