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People should know this isn't ready, and they should continue to use the current book. Chapers like this are just notes: https://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch17-

by mevile 10y ago

People should know this isn't ready, and they should continue to use the current book. Chapers like this are just notes: https://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch17-00-oop.html https://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch17-00-oop.html This doesn't help anybody. Continue to use the rust book at: https://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/stable/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/stable/book/

steveklabnik 10y ago
14 out of 20 chapters have at least a draft, so this is still useful, even if it's not complete. I generally tell people to start here and then go read the old book afterwards to get the stuff that's not there yet, if they have the energy.
carols10cents 10y ago
We actually had someone say that the new version is so much better than the old book, even though it's incomplete, that it's like a medical trial where the treatment is going so well it'd be unethical to keep people on the placebo. A bit hyperbolic, yes, but so is "this doesn't help anybody".
- hexane360 10y ago
  This has been my experience. Just the layout alone is so much better for a programmer just diving into Rust.
- jventura 10y ago
  Although I have some years of practice in programming, I always prefer to learn new languages using some kind of practical tutorial that introduces the topics as we go along. I've just finished the guessing_game tutorial and really understood the general idea of cargo, externs, associated functions, etc. Congratulations, and I hope that the rest of the book is as practical on introducing the following concepts as the tutorial was for me..
  - steveklabnik 10y ago
    They're example driven, but most aren't as large as the Guessing Game is for the most part; the I/O project chapter is, and we'll probably have one more near the end of the book as well.
  - Dowwie 10y ago
    I agree. With that given, this week, I published a rust tutorial based on my first completed project:. http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials
  - Graziano_M 10y ago
    I like Rust, but I was a lot more impressed with how Go introduces it. https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
- elementalest 10y ago
  I found the new version significantly better than the old. I immediately 'got it' after reading some of the new chapters compared to the more complete old version which I sometimes struggled with for a while. I would definitely recommend this to rust beginners, and tell them to just use the old book where the new isn't complete.
saurabh_hooda 10y ago
Thanks. Adding it to other great Rust courses and tutorials at Hackr.io: https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-rust https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-rust

by mevile 10y ago

steveklabnik 10y ago

14 out of 20 chapters have at least a draft, so this is still useful, even if it's not complete. I generally tell people to start here and then go read the old book afterwards to get the stuff that's not there yet, if they have the energy.

carols10cents 10y ago

We actually had someone say that the new version is so much better than the old book, even though it's incomplete, that it's like a medical trial where the treatment is going so well it'd be unethical to keep people on the placebo. A bit hyperbolic, yes, but so is "this doesn't help anybody".

hexane360 10y ago
This has been my experience. Just the layout alone is so much better for a programmer just diving into Rust.
jventura 10y ago
Although I have some years of practice in programming, I always prefer to learn new languages using some kind of practical tutorial that introduces the topics as we go along. I've just finished the guessing_game tutorial and really understood the general idea of cargo, externs, associated functions, etc. Congratulations, and I hope that the rest of the book is as practical on introducing the following concepts as the tutorial was for me..
- steveklabnik 10y ago
  They're example driven, but most aren't as large as the Guessing Game is for the most part; the I/O project chapter is, and we'll probably have one more near the end of the book as well.
- Dowwie 10y ago
  I agree. With that given, this week, I published a rust tutorial based on my first completed project:. http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials
- Graziano_M 10y ago
  I like Rust, but I was a lot more impressed with how Go introduces it. https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
elementalest 10y ago
I found the new version significantly better than the old. I immediately 'got it' after reading some of the new chapters compared to the more complete old version which I sometimes struggled with for a while. I would definitely recommend this to rust beginners, and tell them to just use the old book where the new isn't complete.

saurabh_hooda 10y ago

Thanks. Adding it to other great Rust courses and tutorials at Hackr.io: https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-rust https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-rust