rust-quiz VS easy_rust

If you didn't like these because they're "trick" questions you likely also would not enjoy CppQuiz (https://cppquiz.org/)

However you might well enjoy https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/

Like the C++ quiz, "Undefined Behaviour" is a valid answer, however, the quiz questions are about safe Rust, so that answer is always wrong.

I still get more than half of them wrong unless given far too long to think about it.

Cool, but I feel like the current questions are super basic. Something you're able to answer after reading the book and toying with Rust on a weekend. Definitely needs some harder questions, maybe feel inspired by https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/?

> If we accept that Rust is indeed more difficult to learn than comparable systems programming languages

My problem is with "comparable systems programming languages". To me the only thing that fits there today is C++ and while a great many programming languages would be easier to learn than Rust, C++ is not one of them by a long shot.

I think the C++ Quiz https://cppquiz.org/ and the Rust Quiz https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/ illustrate handily. Neither of these languages is a walk in the park, but, notice they both have "Undefined behaviour" as a possible answer? Safe Rust doesn't actually have undefined behaviour, so you get to rule out one of the possibilities any time you don't see the "unsafe" keyword, which is in fact every time on the Rust Quiz. In C++ some of the quiz questions invoke UB, but good luck correctly guessing which ones.

Do you actually want to question all you know about Rust? Do this amazing quiz by the famed dtolnay.

If you want a correct and much harder Rust quiz, here you go.

⭐ Rust Quiz - David Tolnay

One surprise perhaps is that both Python and C++ have multiple inheritance whereas Rust doesn't have implementation inheritance at all (Rust's traits can inherit but data structures and implementations cannot).

Both C++ and Rust have similar Quiz sites:

https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/

Obligatory: https://dtolnay.github.io/rust-quiz/

There is also this quiz

There's also Easy Rust, an effort in translating the Rust Book into Simple English (limited vocabulary, limited use of idioms), which has now become a Book.

Up on Manning starting this week is a book I wrote / am writing called Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches, whose origins date back to Easy Rust that people here might be familiar with and which I wrote 2 years ago. The first six chapters are now up on MEAP which is pretty exciting. (The code mlmacleod gives 45% off until February 2 btw)

Easy Rust - David MacLeod

Along with the Book, I wrote a book after learning Rust that's for absolute beginners, and doesn't even require installing Rust. It's almost entirely done in the Playground so you can just open up a tab in your browser and follow along. As far as paid books are concerned, my favourite is Programming Rust.

Easy Rust OR GH Page

I made a book for absolute complete beginners, after which the Book should be easy to understand. After that I'd recommend Programming Rust (my favourite book on Rust).

https://github.com/Dhghomon/easy_rust The book

Depends on what language you come from. I found this a decent enough intro for most languages: https://github.com/Dhghomon/easy_rust

This is my favorite: https://github.com/Dhghomon/easy_rust

I put together a book that goes over most of the same content found in The Book but written with easy / straightforward English (partially for English L2 speakers but also for English speakers that just want the info in as straightforward a package as possible).