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Why no books? You're explicitly rejecting the most useful documentation there is. Maybe you mean no printed books by third parties, which would be a reasonable
by eridius 10y ago
Why no books? You're explicitly rejecting the most useful documentation there is. Maybe you mean no printed books by third parties, which would be a reasonable restriction, but https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ is online and written by people involved in the rust language development.
- steveklabnik 10y ago... and http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ is even better!
- eridius 10y agoIs that the new version of the book? I was wondering where that was. I grabbed my link from rust-lang.org. When will the new book take its place?
- steveklabnik 10y agoYes, this is the second edition. My coauthor will not allow me to prognosticate on dates :)
- eridius 10y agoThat's understandable, as long as you don't procrastinate either ;)
- carols10cents 10y ago:)
- newsat13 10y agoI don't have the patience to read a book about a programming language. What I need is crisp insights and honestly the book you linked is just way too time consuming. I just need the essence and I will learn as I dig deeper into the language. IMO, Rust in 2017 is not going to be a first language for anyone. Just put a document that helps people who already know C/C++ very well. I could very well have misunderstood the goal of Rust because that might explain why such a doc doesn't exist.
- eridius 10y agoI have to admit, I find it a little amusing that you're saying that as a C++ programmer you don't have the patience to read a (relatively short) book, given that learning C++ itself requires reading arguably many books, each of which are much larger than the Rust book.
- newsat13 10y agoFWIW, learning C++ was not fun.