book VS HandsOnRust

Compare book vs HandsOnRust and see what are their differences.

book

The Rust Programming Language (by rust-lang)

HandsOnRust

The source code that accompanies Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play by Herbert Wolverson (by thebracket)
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book

Posts with mentions or reviews of book. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-26.
  • Learning Rust: A clean start
    5 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2024
    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'.
  • Prodzilla: From Zero to Prod with Rust and Shuttle
    6 projects | dev.to | 21 Feb 2024
    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.
  • Help me stop hating rust
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    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.

  • Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
    11 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    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.
  • Command Line Rust is a great book
    4 projects | /r/rust | 8 Dec 2023
    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.
  • Nim
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    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

  • Give me the best Resources to learn Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 1 Nov 2023
    https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/
  • Ask HN: Best tools for self-authoring books in 2023?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    We use it to write docs in our company which are then compiled by GitHub Actions and published as GitHub Pages. The best example of a Book produced with mdBook is the Rust Lang book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
  • Introducing “Database Performance at Scale”: A Free, Open Source Book
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023
    I disagree. Words have meaning. 'Open source' means 'open source' in all contexts.

    For comparison, https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ is an open source book. A PDF with a CC license without a repo of the publishing artifacts is not an open source book. It's just a free book.

  • Writing your own CLI in rust
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2023
    Disclaimer This tutorial is by no means to a complete guide. This is just to show you the basic way you can approach making a CLI and how to sort of go about making it. This article also presumes that you have a good enough knowledge of the rust language. If you don’t, I recommend you check out the official rust book. It is a very good resource for learning rust. You can find it here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

HandsOnRust

Posts with mentions or reviews of HandsOnRust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
  • ECS, Finally
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    I'm working my way through the HandsOnRust book that guides you through creating a simple roguelike using Rust and Legion ECS. It's a really enjoyable experience so far, and I'm looking towards trying out Bevy ECS afterwards to compare the two.

    https://github.com/thebracket/HandsOnRust

  • Disappointing experience with 'Command-Line Rust': Seeking more comprehensive Rust resources
    5 projects | /r/rust | 8 Apr 2023
    But if you really want to follow more things then hands on rust and zero to production are two good quality books for learning rust through game dev and web development respectively. But I would still urge you to try a few things by yourself first.
  • I'm a beginner and write Go code. Is there anything similar to 'Let's Go' for Rust?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 4 May 2022
    There is Zero To Production In Rust which goes through building a webserver in rust from the ground up. Or Hands on rust for learning rust by building a game.
  • Any good books for studying rust?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 23 Mar 2022
    Some (optionally) in print: * Rust in Action * Programming Rust * Hands-On Rust * Rust for Rustaceans
  • The Rust Programming Book is not good for Beginners?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 5 Feb 2022
    Other books/resources you might find helpful - Rust by example - a good compliment to The Book that shows concepts with examples. Though does not explain things as much. - Zero To Production In Rust - a look at webservers and taking them to production (still being written though) - Hands on rust - a look at introducing rust with gamedev. - Easy rust - Many more listed here
  • Where to start ?
    2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 3 Nov 2021
    I recommend the book Hands On Rust. It teaches Rust by building a simple rogue-like game using bracket-lib and legion.
  • Is there a basic example of Legion ECS?
    2 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 20 Sep 2021
    A lot of people here follow "Hands-on Rust" book. Its examples are OK: https://github.com/thebracket/HandsOnRust
  • Sharing Saturday #374
    3 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 6 Aug 2021
    Hands-on Rust Bonus Content: Flappy Dragon was released on Medium, via the PragProg channel. The article extends the Flappy Dragon content from Hands-on Rust to add smooth movement and demonstrate animation with tile-based graphics. This is an extended re-print of an article that was released previously; there's new content, and it's now in the PragProg channel for consistency.
  • Sharing Saturday #371
    3 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 16 Jul 2021
    Hands-on Rust on Amazon now shows "buy now" rather than "pre-order" (and apparently sold-out in France?). So hopefully the paper version will be in people's hands soon.
  • Sharing Saturday #370
    4 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 9 Jul 2021
    Hands-on Rust | Website

What are some alternatives?

When comparing book and HandsOnRust you can also consider the following projects:

rust-by-example - Learn Rust with examples (Live code editor included)

Rustlings - :crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!

solana-program-library - A collection of Solana programs maintained by Solana Labs

nomicon - The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming

github-cheat-sheet - A list of cool features of Git and GitHub.

too-many-lists - Learn Rust by writing Entirely Too Many linked lists

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

tour_of_rust - A tour of rust's language features

rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutorials - :books: Learn to write an embedded OS in Rust :crab:

sqlx - 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

Rust-Full-Stack - Rust projects here are easy to use. There are blog posts for them also.

crates.io - The Rust package registry