Rust for Rustaceans

Foreword

Dear reader,

In the course of your experience with Rust so far, it’s likely that you have noticed a knowledge gap between what your existing learning resources have prepared you for versus what you see from the folks making the top tier of widely used Rust libraries and applications.

Libraries that do very well are commonly powered by a co-occurrence of taste and dedication on the authors’ part: feeling what to build, and building the thing (it’s that simple). This book teaches neither of those things.

However, it’s been my experience that taste emerges from a deep comfort with the fundamental pieces. It’s here I feel this book will be helpful to you. I don’t consider it a coincidence that pretty much all of the “household name” open ...