rust-cookbook VS rust-by-example

I'm trying to fix the two test failures in the current master of the Rust Cookbook related to the API change of the rand crate. It went from accepting a couple numbers (in 0.5.6) to a Range instead (in 0.8.0).

So it seems like there isn't much activity with the Rust Cookbook though there are a bunch of outstanding PRs.

rust cookbook

I don't know why he's doing it like this. I thought it might have something to do with the example being around 2 years old, dating back to version 0.14 of the rusqlite crate, but that does not seem to be the case. It could be as simple as the author just not noticing it wasn't required.

Rust can feel a bit intimidating at first but once you start getting the hang of it, you will enjoy it a lot. It has a very well articulated documentation, which can be used as a good learning resource too. Some other resources for Rust include Rustlings and Rust-By-Example.

Rust by Example

Rust by Example: Collection of runnable examples, which many find useful to read

I more or less went straight from The Book (see also Rust by Example) to Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists and code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care and I've often seen PNGme suggested as the next step after that.

Context around the "rust by example" discussion from 2015: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-by-example/issues/390

The Rust By Example website is another helpful resource for learning Rust. It provides a series of interactive examples that demonstrate how to use various Rust features and libraries.

The book is great and was my original introduction to the language, but rustlings or Rust By Example might be more interesting for an interactive (and more self paced) approach.

Rust by Example: Rust by Example is a collection of runnable examples that cover a wide range of Rust concepts and standard libraries. It's a great way to see how Rust code works in practice.

Some tips for Rust: I went through Rust by Example religiously, prior to AOC. This helped a lot. And then the Too Many Lists guide when I needed to build some data structures (not lists per se, but rather figuring out how to deal with ownership in dynamic lists helped to build graph structures). That guide may be less adequate now, but these days, there's cheats.rs which looks like something that I was missing when writing then.