My Struggles with Rust

Re:My Struggles with Rust by geofft on Sunday May 07, 2017 @01:43PM (#14286510)

I think it is 100% the case that the best way to learn Rust is to be on the IRC channel (#rust or #rust-beginners, either is fine for beginners but the latter is unlogged and more focused if you prefer) and ask lots of questions and also lurk. I'm not sure if that's good in absolute terms for the language, but it's very helpful.

(Which probably means your first project should be something open-source so you can share your code easily)

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Re:My Struggles with Rust by bluejekyll on Sunday May 07, 2017 @04:40PM (#14287531)

Personally, I learned Rust with "The Book" and "Rust by example", I'm still learning it!

My time never really allows me to be on IRC regularly. Point being that if you can't get on IRC, I don't think it's necessary.

And honestly, error handling was the most difficult thing to understand, until you start groking why sized types are required as return types from functions and that every function call up the stack requires its callees to compensate for all it's error possibilities.

error_chain! has made this all so much better.

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