rust/doc/index.md

% Rust documentation

Reference docs

Current (0.9)

• Tutorial
• Guides
  • borrowed pointers
  • conditions
  • containers & iterators
  • ffi
  • macros
  • rustpkg
  • tasks
  • testing
• Manual (PDF)
• Standard library
• Extra library
• Package manager

In-development (git master)

• Tutorial (PDF)
• Guides
  • borrowed pointers
  • conditions
  • containers & iterators
  • ffi
  • macros
  • rustpkg
  • tasks
  • testing
• Manual (PDF)
• Standard library
• Extra library
• libgreen
• libnative
• Package manager

FAQs

• Language FAQ
• Project FAQ
• Usage FAQ
• Code cheatsheet - "How do I do X?"
• HOWTO submit a bug report

Community

Note

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• IRC

  • #rust on irc.mozilla.org - Main Rust channel - general discussion
  • #rust-internals on irc.mozilla.org - Rust compiler and library development
  • #rust-gamedev on irc.mozilla.org - game development in Rust
  • #rust-osdev on irc.mozill.org - OS development in Rust
  • #rust on irc.ozinger.org - Korean Rust community

• Mailing list rust-dev

• Reddit's r/rust

• User groups

  • Rust Bay Area
  • Rust Korea
  • Rust Skåne
  • Rust 中文圈 (on Google+)

Specialized documentation

Releases - Links to current and old releases and documentation
Detailed release notes - Further explanation of language changes
Rust for C++ programmers - A cheat sheet
Rusticon - A glossary of terms commonly used in Rust and Rust tools.
Unit testing - Writing tests and running them with the built-in test driver
Using rustpkg - Managing packages
Using rustdoc - How to extract Markdown and HTML documentation from code
Package documentation - Documentation for rust packages
Continuous integration - Test your GitHub-hosted packages with Travis CI
Reading and writing files Attributes - The role of metadata in Rust code, with descriptions of many applications
Packages, editors, and other tools
Packaging Terminology Crate Hashes - How Rust generates crate filenames, versions symbols, and why
Computer Graphics and Game Development - Libraries and example projects
Présentation du langage Rust - Detailed documentation in French, with examples
Building for Android
Building for iOS

Some Rust classics:

• Pointers in Rust: A Guide
• A taste of Rust
• An overview of memory management in Rust
• Which pointer should I use?
• Lifetimes explained
• Little things that matter in language design
• Operator overloading in Rust
• Embedding Rust in Ruby
• A first parallel program in Rust
• FizzBuzz revisited
• Ownership types in Rust, and whether they're worth it
• Reasoning about the heap in Rust
• The Option Type
• How I got started hacking rustc
• Abstraction penalties, stack allocation, and ownership types
• Présentation de Rust 0.8 - A very detailed article about Rust 0.8, in French!

Presentations

• John Clements, 10-minute talk (video) at SoCal PLS on Rust, Macros, and Hygiene. December 2013.
• Felix's Codemesh 2013 slides
• Geoffroy Couprie's Scala.IO 2013 slides
• Steve's presentation at RuPy 2013 "Nobody Knows Rust." slides, video to come soon
• Tim's presentation at OS Bridge 2013 - And slides
• Niko's presentation at Northeastern - Slides only
• An I/O system for Rust - Eric Reed's intern presentation on I/O
• Types of Types - Ben Blum's intern presentation on 'kinds'
• Default methods in Rust - Michael Sullivan's intern presentation on default methods
• A work stealing runtime for Rust - Aaron Todd's intern presentation on the Rust scheduler
• Dave Herman's StrangeLoop 2012 talk