Rust 1.50 - Hackdot

Re:Rust 1.50 by da_big_ghey on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:50AM (#26102863)

I am looking to learn Rust, but am wondering, what resources are good for learning the latest language version? I don't want to pick up something that teaches me an old version so I then have to go and get used to the new one.

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Re:Rust 1.50 by steveklabnik on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:55AM (#26102942)

New versions of Rust come out every six weeks, so you basically can never find something that is covering the absolute latest head.

However, new features are additive, so you won't learn stuff that's incorrect, you just may not be aware of later, new things.

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Re:Rust 1.50 by lmkg on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:59AM (#26103005)

I agree that versions aren't worth worrying about, but which edition is something I would pay attention to.

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Re:Rust 1.50 by joseluisq on Thursday February 11, 2021 @11:02AM (#26103057)

Yeah, however I think that a good one could be 2018 Edition IMO.

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Re:Rust 1.50 by vincenv on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:55AM (#26102935)

I found the Rust Programming Language book [1] very helpful for learning, and with rust installed you can open it by typing rustup doc --book.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/

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Re:Rust 1.50 by baq on Thursday February 11, 2021 @11:02AM (#26103056)

pick any stable version released in the last few months, or perhaps the one shipped with a recent version of your favorite distro (if running linux) - changes are very rarely important enough to absolutely have to know them.

1.50 is a nice round number and for that reason i can recommend it :)

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