Rust for Rustaceans

Preface

One of the goals listed on the Rust 2018 roadmap was to develop teaching resources to better serve intermediate Rustaceans—those who aren’t beginners but also aren’t compiler experts looking to design a new iteration of the borrow checker. That call inspired me to start live-streaming coding sessions where I implemented real systems in Rust in real time—not toy projects or long-winded introductions to basic concepts, but libraries and tools I would actually use for my research. My thinking was that Rust newcomers needed to see an experienced Rust programmer go through the whole development process, including design, debugging, and iteration, in order to understand how to think in Rust. While a beginner could attempt the same things themselves, ...