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Author here. Didn't really want to post this to the wider programming community yet, but oh well. This is basically the first draft. Lots of errors and TODOs.

• Analemma_ 11y ago
  No problem! Is there someplace we can go to be alerted when it is ready?
  • Gankro 11y ago
    So it's in nightly today, so barring a tragedy it will land in stable in ~8 weeks I think. I'll probably repost it everywhere when that happens. This and The Book are living documents anyway -- they'll never be done. This just literally landed last night, though.
• adamnemecek 11y ago
  Changed the title to "The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft". Better :-)?
  • Gankro 11y ago
    Thanks!
• evmar 11y ago
  In a book that opens with "Unlike The Rust Programming Language we will be assuming considerable prior knowledge", you don't need the simple ownership example.
  • Gankro 11y ago
    Even if assuming considerable knowledge, it's nice to be able to refresh the reader on basics here and there. That text is largely just reserving the right to not explain everything (also I'm moving away from it in general). Also: what example? There's like a hundred examples. Edit: If you mean the examples here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/adv-book/ownership.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/adv-book/ownership.html They're a recurring example that we deconstruct in later sections. There's no need to make them needlessly complicated.
    • themartorana 11y ago
      Agreed. I work in Go, JS, Python, bash, Lua, Objective-C, Java, and C# (among others) every week. Sometimes I need a quick refresher on the topic at hand. (How many times I've put a colon at the end of a Lua function line...)
• dang 11y ago
  If you'd prefer that we demote the post until the material is more ready, I think it's reasonable to offer an author that prerogative.
  • Gankro 11y ago
    Eh, I'm already at the top of HN. :P More eyes to find errors before it makes into the beta channel, hopefully!