book VS logos

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/

This is mighty impressive! I've been trying to get some motivation for the mythical rewrite of the proc macro in Logos, and this might just do it for me :D. I'll have a proper look later today and see if any of your findings have something that can be generalized. Also really surprised to see aarch64 doing better than x86_64 since the latter is what I've been optimizing for!

Rust is a very nice langage for implementing compilers, and has a nice ecosystem for it (logos, rust-peg, lalrpop, astmaker -- this one is mine --, etc...).

rust-langdev has a lot of libraries for building compilers in Rust. Perhaps you could use these to make your implementation easier, and revisit it later if you want to build things from scratch. I'd suggest logos for lexing, LALRPOP / chumsky for parsing, and rust-gc for garbage collection.

Thanks! For compile times you might find the CLI version that Andrew Hickman contributed useful, it's undocumented still mostly I fear but shouldn't be hard to use, see original PR: https://github.com/maciejhirsz/logos/pull/248

For my lexer generation purposes, I tend to use https://github.com/maciejhirsz/logos, as it not only generates an easy to use lazy lexer, but the result is also exceptionally fast!

Hi, I'm using rowan to create a parser and want to print more useful error messages with position in the text/file. I'm using logos (https://crates.io/crates/logos) to generate the lexer. Is there a way to get the starting and ending positions of a SyntaxToken? If not I thought of adding my own wrapper struct around the SyntaxTokens.

Is there a way for a lexer created with the logos crate (https://crates.io/crates/logos) to get the starting and ending positions for the tokens?

I wouldn't recommend Logos at this point. This recent bug is quite nasty and seems easy to hit, and the maintainer is unresponsive. Last commit was half a year ago. At this point I consider Logos abandonware, though it would be great if its development continued, or if it were forked.

logos uses "ridiculously fast".