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Hi! I'm the maintainer, and I'm glad yinz are enjoying rustlings :) I don't have any plans to do this for other languages, but please feel free to start your ow

Hi! I'm the maintainer, and I'm glad yinz are enjoying rustlings :) I don't have any plans to do this for other languages, but please feel free to start your own! If you have any particular Rust concepts that you'd like exercises for, please let me know here, file an issue, or even contribute an exercise! Errors that you've hit that took you out of your flow of working on something else are great candidates. I haven't been adding new exercises recently, but I would like to continue expanding. Thanks! <3

cgh 11y ago
Thank you for doing this. Is there any chance we could see exercises involving lifetimes? I've found this is one of the trickiest Rust-only concepts to really understand.
- carols10cents 11y ago
  I will try!!
MuEta 11y ago
> yinz So a Pittsburgher with a passion for rust? Color me surprised.
- dikaiosune 11y ago
  Isn't it in the rust belt?
  - carols10cents 11y ago
    Indeed it is!
  - solipsism 11y ago
    That's... the joke...
- carols10cents 11y ago
  > So a Pittsburgher with a passion for rust? Color me surprised. Guilty as charged :)
  - untothebreach 11y ago
    holy cow...just went looking for the origins of "yinz" and found out about "western pennsylvania english." My wife does the "needs/likes/wants + past participle" thing listed in the wikipedia article[1], and I never knew it was commonplace in some parts of the U.S. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English
    - steveklabnik 11y ago
      Wikipedia says only outsiders say "Pittsburghese", but I've only ever heard it, and never "Western Pennsylvania English." See also http://www.pittsburghese.com/ http://www.pittsburghese.com/
    - bwanab 11y ago
      Hmmm... It is a common usage in Appalachian East Tennessee also. I suspect it's more generically Appalachian than just Pennsylvania.
pc86 11y ago
This looks pretty neat! Would you recommend this for someone wanting to learn rust from scratch who is proficient in other languages?
- carols10cents 11y ago
  That's basically my target audience :) It's not comprehensive yet, but the idea is to give you practice with Rust syntax and compiler errors.
CoffeeDregs 11y ago
Thanks for putting in the effort to produce this. I'm excited to learn Rust and to port a few projects over to it, but I haven't gotten traction to get past the first few steps. Your packaging-up of the examples is a great way to start.
Eridrus 11y ago
For everyone looking for exercises in other languages, there is actually a project to curate exercises for programming languages called exercism.io Maybe the OP could contribute their exercises there, since their Rust exercises were not very good when I tried them.
- chc4 11y ago
  There's also Rosetta Code, which has tons of problems and language implementations. It's tons of fun to read through.
- carols10cents 11y ago
  Yeah, I love exercism! There's definitely conceptual overlap, but IIRC the exercises in exercism were more of the variety where you're given a problem and you start from scratch, then others give feedback on your solution. I'm not sure if the intentionally-broken starting places of rustlings would fit in?
maxbrunsfeld 11y ago
This looks great. Bookmarked for when I get around to learning Rust.

cgh 11y ago

Thank you for doing this. Is there any chance we could see exercises involving lifetimes? I've found this is one of the trickiest Rust-only concepts to really understand.

carols10cents 11y ago
I will try!!

MuEta 11y ago

> yinz So a Pittsburgher with a passion for rust? Color me surprised.

dikaiosune 11y ago
Isn't it in the rust belt?
- carols10cents 11y ago
  Indeed it is!
- solipsism 11y ago
  That's... the joke...
carols10cents 11y ago
> So a Pittsburgher with a passion for rust? Color me surprised. Guilty as charged :)
- untothebreach 11y ago
  holy cow...just went looking for the origins of "yinz" and found out about "western pennsylvania english." My wife does the "needs/likes/wants + past participle" thing listed in the wikipedia article[1], and I never knew it was commonplace in some parts of the U.S. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English
  - steveklabnik 11y ago
    Wikipedia says only outsiders say "Pittsburghese", but I've only ever heard it, and never "Western Pennsylvania English." See also http://www.pittsburghese.com/ http://www.pittsburghese.com/
  - bwanab 11y ago
    Hmmm... It is a common usage in Appalachian East Tennessee also. I suspect it's more generically Appalachian than just Pennsylvania.

pc86 11y ago

This looks pretty neat! Would you recommend this for someone wanting to learn rust from scratch who is proficient in other languages?

carols10cents 11y ago
That's basically my target audience :) It's not comprehensive yet, but the idea is to give you practice with Rust syntax and compiler errors.

CoffeeDregs 11y ago

Thanks for putting in the effort to produce this. I'm excited to learn Rust and to port a few projects over to it, but I haven't gotten traction to get past the first few steps. Your packaging-up of the examples is a great way to start.

Eridrus 11y ago

For everyone looking for exercises in other languages, there is actually a project to curate exercises for programming languages called exercism.io Maybe the OP could contribute their exercises there, since their Rust exercises were not very good when I tried them.

chc4 11y ago
There's also Rosetta Code, which has tons of problems and language implementations. It's tons of fun to read through.
carols10cents 11y ago
Yeah, I love exercism! There's definitely conceptual overlap, but IIRC the exercises in exercism were more of the variety where you're given a problem and you start from scratch, then others give feedback on your solution. I'm not sure if the intentionally-broken starting places of rustlings would fit in?

maxbrunsfeld 11y ago

This looks great. Bookmarked for when I get around to learning Rust.