Awesome documentation links for Rust

I wrote down the useful links that I have learned. I’ll continue to update it.

General

• The Rust Programming Language
• Rust for C++ programmers
• The Advanced Rust Programming Language
• Rust for Rubyists

Abstraction

• Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust

Ownership

• Lifetime in Rust Book
• Understanding Pointers, Ownership, and Lifetimes in Rust
• http://alvalea.gitbooks.io/rust-for-cpp/content/lifetimes.html
• Understanding Lifetime in Rust – Part I
• Understanding Lifetime in Rust – Part II

Object Safety

• Object Safety
• Where Self Meets Sized: Revisiting Object Safety
• The Sized Trait

FFI

• Foreign Function Interface – Rust Book
• C types in Rust
• Rust FFI C string handling
• How do I get a *mut c_char from a Str?
• Rust Once, Run Everywhere
• FFI in Rust – writing bindings for libcpuid
• 24 days of Rust – calling Rust from other languages
• A Pythonist getting Rusty these days… Part 1, Part 2
• Exposing Rust struct to Python

Iterator

• Effectively Using Iterators In Rust
• A Journey into Iterators
• How can I zip more than two iterators?
• Correct way to return an Iterator?
• Itertools (very useful iterator helper utility)

Pattern Matching

• Destructuring and Pattern Matching
• Mixing matching, mutation, and moves in Rust

Error handling

• Rust error stacktraces
• Practicality With Rust: Error Handling

biild.rs

• Build Script Support – Cargo Documentation
• gcc-rs

Examples

• llvm-sys.rs/build.rs

Idiomatic Usages of Rust

• Virtual Structs Part 1: Where Rust’s Enum Shines
• Modeling Graphs in Rust Using Vector Indices
• Rust Design Patterns

API Design

• String vs &str in Rust functions
• Creating a Rust function that accepts String or &str
• Creating a Rust function that returns a &str or String
• Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists
• Rust’s Built-in Traits, the When, How & Why

Ownership

• Strategies for solving ‘cannot move out of’ borrowing errors in Rust

Network and I/O

Macro

• The Little Book of Rust Macros

MIO

• API Documentation
• mio book
• Getting Acquainted with MIO
• mio source code
• Creating A Multi-echo Server using Rust and mio
• Accumulating echo server using Rust’s mio
• My Basic Understanding of mio and Asynchronous IO

Projects Worth Watching

• Awesome Rust
• Rust in Detail
  • Part 1) Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch
  • Part 2) Sending and Receiving Messages
• Asynchronous IO in Rust
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Building an iOS App in Rust, Part 1: Getting Started with Rust
• Creating A Multi-echo Server using Rust and mio
• Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust
  • Library documentation

Papers

• Parallelization in Rust with fork-join and friends

Profiling

• Blog: Profiling Rust applications (comments)
• Rust Performance: A story featuring perf and flamegraph on Linux

Updates

• Oct 15, 2015 – Added The Little Book of Rust Macros.
• Nov 3. 2015 – Add ‘Rust Design Pattern’ and ‘Exposing Rust struct to Python’