api-guidelines VS book

Just wanting to let this here for some further input: - https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/ - https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/ - https://deterministic.space/elegant-apis-in-rust.html

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.

There has been some previous discussion on this here: https://github.com/rust-lang/api-guidelines/discussions/28

I'm currently writing an API and using the API guidelines book. On the Flexibility page, there's a section on using generics as function parameters to minimize assumptions. The issue that I'm having is that the only example it gives is std::fs::File::open. Specifically, I want to know what is the "standard" way to use generics as parameters?

I search up in the rust-api-guideline, but no luck finding something like this. There used to be an Organization according to this thread, but upon digging the repo commits, it was deleted by this commit. "We can reintroduce this section if we come up with a way to give firmer advice here."

public api of a library should follow Rust API Guidelines.

API was made compliant with Rust API Guidelines.

Finally, there's also the Little Book of Rust Books where you could look for tutorial materials or things like like Rust Design Patterns, Rust API Guidelines, and The Rust Performance Book. (See also rust-learning)

Rust API Guidelines: If you're planning on building libraries or APIs in Rust, these guidelines provide recommendations for designing and presenting APIs in the language. They're written by the Rust library team, based on their experience building the Rust standard library and other crates in the ecosystem.

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/