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The author, Jon Gjengset, has a channel which was a critical resource for me to learn Rust. https://youtube.com/@jonhoo https://youtube.com/@jonhoo He also co
by maxbond 2y ago
The author, Jon Gjengset, has a channel which was a critical resource for me to learn Rust.
https://youtube.com/@jonhoo https://youtube.com/@jonhoo
He also contributed to MIT's Missing Semester, which is a fantastic idea about providing context that's missing from CS courses (like how to use git or a debugger).
https://youtube.com/@missingsemester https://youtube.com/@missingsemester
As a final bit of trivia, I believe his thesis advisor was Robert T. Morris, the co-founder of YC. I believe he was also an early contributor to the Arc and HN codebases.
- jgn 2y agoThe book's technical reviewer is David Tolnay [0] who authored some of Rust's ubiquitous crates: `anyhow`, `thiserror`, `serde`. It's a good intermediate companion to the official Rust intro [1]. I found it most helpful when reading third-party crates. [0] https://github.com/dtolnay https://github.com/dtolnay [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
- pests 2y agoHe's on HN, I'm sure he will pop on here eventually. I believe his handle is just his name firstlast.