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Without getting a job in Rust (due to lack of experience) what is the best way to get experience with it?

by Graffur 5y ago

the_gipsy 5y ago
I did some experiments with bevy.
da39a3ee 5y ago
Write little command line tools for yourself in it (it’s the same answer for most languages).
- bigiain 5y ago
  The embedded RustConf talk said a big thing internally at FB was rewriting stuff like existing/well-used Python scripts into Rust...
ahelwer 5y ago
Find an open source project you care about that uses it then try to fix some simple issues. That's how I learned!
azdle 5y ago
Write something that sounds fun. It doesn't even have to be useful to anyone, just interesting. And you have to be able to talk about it. The last person we hired for our team, I actively courted because he'd written a javascript parser (note: just a parser, it parsed basic JS to an AST and did nothing with it) and talked about it at a local rust meetup I'd been hosting (until COVID). If you don't have local (or maybe now vitual?) meetups to go to, write a blog post about it and post it to HN and put a single sentence "I'm looking for a job that lets me write Rust professionally" note at the bottom, you never know who's going to see it.
oconnor663 5y ago
The official book is good, and I recommend even experienced programmers read it. Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes are really central to the language, and really handled differently from other familiar languages. The jump from "implicit and occasionally violated" notions of ownership to an "explicit and 100% enforced" notion is a big one.
marcins 5y ago
I learned a bit of Rust by doing Advent of Code with it. That's more algorithms than systems, but the difficulty ramp in AoC means it ends up being a good intro to the core of a language.
markjgx 5y ago
I started out by doing a raytracer, graphics programming is really rewarding. https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...

Without getting a job in Rust (due to lack of experience) what is the best way to get experience with it?

the_gipsy 5y ago

I did some experiments with bevy.

da39a3ee 5y ago

Write little command line tools for yourself in it (it’s the same answer for most languages).

bigiain 5y ago
The embedded RustConf talk said a big thing internally at FB was rewriting stuff like existing/well-used Python scripts into Rust...

ahelwer 5y ago

Find an open source project you care about that uses it then try to fix some simple issues. That's how I learned!

azdle 5y ago

Write something that sounds fun. It doesn't even have to be useful to anyone, just interesting. And you have to be able to talk about it. The last person we hired for our team, I actively courted because he'd written a javascript parser (note: just a parser, it parsed basic JS to an AST and did nothing with it) and talked about it at a local rust meetup I'd been hosting (until COVID). If you don't have local (or maybe now vitual?) meetups to go to, write a blog post about it and post it to HN and put a single sentence "I'm looking for a job that lets me write Rust professionally" note at the bottom, you never know who's going to see it.

oconnor663 5y ago

The official book is good, and I recommend even experienced programmers read it. Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes are really central to the language, and really handled differently from other familiar languages. The jump from "implicit and occasionally violated" notions of ownership to an "explicit and 100% enforced" notion is a big one.

marcins 5y ago

I learned a bit of Rust by doing Advent of Code with it. That's more algorithms than systems, but the difficulty ramp in AoC means it ends up being a good intro to the core of a language.

markjgx 5y ago

I started out by doing a raytracer, graphics programming is really rewarding. https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...