Resources

Installing the toolchain

You should consider installing the Rust linter Clippy, and depending on your editor capabilities, RustFormat:

rustup component add clippy-preview
rustup component add rustfmt-preview

Offline books and docs

The Rust books, the full docs standard library as well as a few more reousrces are installed as part of the toolcahin. Once installed, run:

rustup docs - opens a browser with links to locally installed docs, books etc…
rustup docs --path - shows the path to the doccs on your local disk - useful in case you cannot open a browser from your session (eg: running rustup in WSL)
rustup docs -h - display options and which books are available (--std, --book, --cargo, --reference, etc…
rustup docs --std includes Rust built-in keywords, macros and primitive and the Standard library API documentation.

Note: All offline pages have a search function which works offline. Look for the search box or the 🔍 at the top of the pages.

Online docs

Other resources to learn

Rust Bridge brief intro to Rust: This is a very good first few step hands on intro to the Rust programming language.
Rustlings: Once installed locally, it takes you through exercises, giving you code with bugs that you need to fix so they compile
(exercism.io): Site with exercises to learn different programming languages. This can be slow as you need a mentor to review your code, but useful if you need somebody to help and give you feedback.

Discord servers

Lots of channels based on topics, including “beginners”:

Are we yet?

There are a few “areweXXXyet.org” sites which try to capture current most popular solutions available for a given problem. They are a good starting point if you want to explore a particular subject with Rust. They are also typically hosted on github and accepting Pull Requests.

There is a Mozilla wiki page which maintains a list of areweyet sites: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet