Learning resources

There is an official book describing the Rust programming language in detail. doc.rust-lang.org/book/

More examples of the concepts discussed in the book are available in this collection: doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example

When you finish with the language itself, there is an ongoing effort to create a set of examples of using core libraries for concurrency, data serialization, network programming, etc. rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook

Finally, you can find community pages with a list of resources such as this one: github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning

API documentation

Standard library documentation: doc.rust-lang.org/std

The Cargo book: doc.rust-lang.org/cargo

Documentation for crates available at crates.io: docs.rs

IDE recommendations

There are plugins for popular editor such as Vim, Atom or Gnome Builder which are based on the rust-analyzer implementation. Alternatively, IntelliJ IDEA provides their own, custom plugin. Unfortunatelly, the debugging support is available only in paid CLion IDE.

Rustup

Before you try to configure your editor or IDE, it is recommended to install rustup

You can do so with DNF. Run:

$ sudo dnf install rustup

The above command will install rustup-init command that you can then run to setup rustup.

Note that if you have installed rust via dnf, there may be warnings like:

warning: it looks like you have an existing installation of Rust at:
warning: /usr/bin
warning: It is recommended that rustup be the primary Rust installation.
warning: Otherwise you may have confusion unless you are careful with your PATH
warning: If you are sure that you want both rustup and your already installed Rust
warning: then please reply `y' or `yes' or set RUSTUP_INIT_SKIP_PATH_CHECK to yes
warning: or pass `-y' to ignore all ignorable checks.
error: cannot install while Rust is installed

Continue? (y/N)

This can be safely ignored as it is not known to cause any issues, simply answer with y and continue.

To then register system installation with rustup run the following command:

$ rustup toolchain link system /usr

Alternatively you install upstream rustup as described here: rustup.rs.

IDEs

If you want to start with Rust programming, it is easiest to try the rust-analyzer for Visual Studio Code:

1. Install the VSCode RPM package: code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
2. Follow the instructions given at the extension Github page: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/manual.html#vs-code

In case you prefer IDEs over editors, try the Intellij IDEA extension:

1. Install the IDE (instructions are available under the “Installation Instructions” link): www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=linux
2. Install the Rust plugin: intellij-rust.github.io/docs/quick-start.html

Complete list of available options is here: areweideyet.com

Other useful links

If you want to start with some web applications, a list of useful frameworks is available here: www.arewewebyet.org

If you are brave enough and you want to try the nightly compiler edition (or you just want to try the awesome Rocket framework), it is recommended to use rustup: rustup.rs

Authors: Jarek Prokop, Josh Stone, Matúš Ferech, Nick Dirschel, msehnout