Welcome to The Rust Programming Language, an introductory book about Rust. The Rust programming language helps you write faster, more reliable software. High-level ergonomics …

Rust is a modern systems programming language focusing on safety, speed, and concurrency. It accomplishes these goals by being memory safe without using garbage collection.

We’ll download Rust through rustup, a command line tool for managing Rust versions and associated tools. You’ll need an internet connection for the download.

• Check out Rust’s official reference to learn the precise behaviour of as casting for each source/target combination, as well as the exhaustive list of allowed conversions.

Design, implement and debug a small software system from scratch in Rust following the language standard including proper coding style. Set up a project and build environment, …

Today’s entire lecture borrows heavily from a lecture open-sourced by Prof. Wu-chang Feng at Portland State University, where they use Rust as their systems programming language

Opinion — These features make your life easier using Rust, but stand in the way of learning it. If you want to develop a genuine understanding, spend some extra time exploring them.