Rust vs C Pitfalls

Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by sli on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:15PM (#13267934)

Count me excited. I've always liked the book, but I've also found it fairly lacking in ways I'm not sure I completely understand, I can likely lend part of that to my relative inexperience with Rust and systems programming in general.

One I can note is that I really like the new sections. I've never quite liked that the current book is just a bunch of chapters all in a row. Not that that's necessarily bad in and of itself, but I do think the new way is better.

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by steveklabnik on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:17PM (#13267944)

Thanks! If you do check it out, don't hesitate to file issues.

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by copine on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:33PM (#13267999)

How far along is the new documentation? Would it be better to read https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ or the github.io page? Maybe both?

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:18AM (#13268595)

Both would be ideal, if you have the time. The new book is far enough along that you can learn the most basic stuff from it, and the intermediate bits are coming along. The more advanced stuff is only an outline. So if you start with new, and then switch to old, you'll get the best of both.

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