The Little Book of Rust Books

This book is a treasure-trove of Rust books:

• Official books maintained at rust-lang.org
• Unofficial books maintained elsewhere
• Application books on specific Rust applications

If you know of others, why not submit a pull request?

Titles not in mdbook format are italicised. For more books in other formats, see Rust Books.

Official Rust Books

The following books are maintained at rust-lang.org. Many of them are mentioned in Learn Rust.

Introductory:

• Rust by Example - runnable examples illustrating Rust concepts
• Rustlings - small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
• The Rust Programming Language - “the book”

Core:

• The Cargo Book - the Rust package manager
• The Edition Guide - guide on introducing changes into the Rust language
• The rustc Book - guide to the compiler for the Rust programming language
• The rustdoc Book - guide to the tool which generates documentation for Rust projects
• The rustup Book - guide to the tool which installs the Rust language from release channels

Advanced:

• Guide to Rustc Development - compiler internals
• Rust Forge - Rust team documentation
• The Rust Reference - primary reference to the Rust language
• The Rust Unstable Book - nightly-only features
• The Rustonomicon - the dark arts of unsafe Rust
• Unsafe Code Guidelines Reference - unsafe coding practices

Working groups:

• Compiler team working groups - a list of working groups
• Const Generics Project Group - design and implementation of the const generics feature
• Rust Project Goals - Rust Project Goals tracker
• Standard library developers Guide
• The Rust Language Design Team - information related to the work of the lang team
• The Types Team - traits implementation improvements
• wg-async - foundations of async I/O

Initiative:

• async fn fundamentals initiative
• Dyn upcast initiative
• Generic Associated Types Initiative
• Impl trait initiative

Other:

• Asynchronous Programming in Rust - non-blocking coroutines
• cargo-bisect-rustc - tool for automatically downloading and bisecting rustc artifacts and tests until it finds a given regression
• Clippy Documentation - code lints for programmers
• Criterion.rs - statistics-driven micro-benchmarking
• Error Codes Index - list of all error codes emitted from the Rust compiler
• mdBook - authoring, rendering and serving markdown books
• Polonius - experimental borrow checker crate
• Rust API Guidelines - how to design and present APIs
• Rust RFCs - list of Requests For Comments for changes to Rust
• The Chalk Book - Rust’s new trait system implementation
• The bindgen User Guide - automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C and C++ libraries

Unofficial Rust Books

The following books are maintained outside rust-lang.org.

Introductory:

• 100 Exercises to Learn Rust
• A Gentle Introduction To Rust
• A half-hour to learn Rust
• Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions
• Comprehensive Rust 🦀 - a multi-day course developed by Google to teach Rust to Android engineers
• Dyner - experimental trait (dyn) objects in Rust
• Easy Rust - aimed at non-English native speakers
• Effective Rust - Rust guidelines¹
• Error Handling in Rust
• Futures Explained in 200 Lines of Rust - from the internet archive
• Java-Rust Generics
• Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
• Learning Rust - a collection of resources by quinedot
• Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists
• LifetimeKata
• Pointers
• py2rs - from Python into Rust
• r4cppp - quick introduction to Rust for C++ programmers
• rust-cross - everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs!
• Rust Anthology 1
• Rust By Practice - Rust practice through challenging examples, exercises and projects
• Rust Cookbook - a collection of example programs
• Rust for C++ Programmers
• Rust for Clojurists
• Rust for Node Developers
• Rust for the Polyglot Programmer
• Rustic Symmetries
• Rust Iterators
• Rust Ownership, the Hard Way
• Rust 101 - Rust programming language learning guide
• Small Rust Tutorial For MLOps - learn Rust for MLOps
• The Node Experiment: Exploring Async Basics with Rust - from the internet archive

Application domains:

• Async
  • Async programming in Rust with async-std
  • Async Raft - the Raft distributed consensus protocol in async Rust
  • Learning Async Rust with Entirely Too Many Web Servers
  • The Node Experiment - Exploring Async Basics with Rust
  • Tokio Tutorial - event-driven, non-blocking I/O
• Comparing parallel Rust and C++
• Command line
  • Command Line Applications in Rust
  • PNGme: An Intermediate Rust Project - building a command line program to hide secret messages in PNG files
• CXX — Safe Interop Between Rust and C++
• Embedded
  • Embedded: The Missing Parts
  • Embedded Rust on Espressif - training Material for learning to use Embedded Rust with the Espressif ESP32-C3.
  • The Embedded Rust Book
  • The Embedonomicon - build a #![no_std] application from scratch
  • The Rust on ESP Book - comprehensive guide on using the Rust programming language with Espressif SoCs and modules.
  • Workbook for Embedded Workshops - an embedded Rust workshop
• Foreign Function Interface (FFI)
  • The Rust FFI Omnibus
  • The (unofficial) Rust FFI Guide - FFI in depth
  • Using Unsafe for Fun and Profit
• Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency
• Triangle From Scratch - draw a triangle using Win32, but no external crates
• Web assembly
  • Rust and WebAssembly
  • The wasm-bindgen Guide
  • The wasm-pack Guide
  • WASM It
• Writing an OS in Rust
• Writing Interpreters in Rust: a Guide

Other:

• Macros
  • Advanced Macros
  • MacroKata - a series of worked exercises to learn macros
  • The Little Book of Rust Macros
  • Rust Latam: procedural macros workshop
• High Assurance Rust - developing secure and robust software
• Rust Design Patterns
• Rust Fuzz Book - fuzz testing
• Rust Performance
• Salsa - framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation
• Secure Rust Guidelines
• The Little Book of Rust Books
• The Rust Rand Book - Rust’s random number library
• Rust Tutorials
• Usability of Programming Languages - comparison of basic idioms in Rust, Python and Crystal

Rust Application Books

Applications of Rust:

• An Introduction to Chip-8 Emulation using the Rust Programming Language - PDF book
• A thoughtful introduction to the pest parser - a library for writing plain-text parsers
• Build a Lua Interpreter in Rust
• Book of crosvm - a hosted (a.k.a. type-2) virtual machine monitor
• Cross-platform Rust Components - Rust components for Firefox integration
• Create Your Own Programming Language with Rust
• delta - syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
• Embedded
  • Anachro - a network protocol and a PC architecture for microcontrollers
  • Discovery - use an F3 Discovery circuit board and Rust
  • The Rust on ESP Book
• Game development
  • Amethyst Game Engine
  • BEVY The Book - data-driven game engine
  • DMG-01: How to Emulate a Game Boy
  • Emergent AI - smart agents and events
  • Fyrox Cheat Book - a general purpose game engine
  • Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust - Roguelike game development
  • Rust sokoban - puzzle video game
  • The Specs Book - an introduction to Entity–component–system (ECS) and the Specs API
  • Writing NES Emulator in Rust - NES is the Nintendo Entertainment System gaming platform
• GPU development
  • Rust GPU Dev Guide
• GraphQL
  • Async-graphql Book - GraphQL server-side library
  • Cynic - A GraphQL Client For Rust
  • Juniper - GraphQL Server for Rust
• GUI development
  • Druid
  • GUI development with Relm4
  • GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
  • SixtyFPS Memory Game Tutorial (Rust) - tutorial using the SixtyFPS GUI toolkit
• intermezzOS OS
• nalgebra - a linear algebra library
• OpenPGP Card
• Plotly.rs
• PNGme: An Intermediate Rust Project
• Prusti user guide - a Rust verifier
• Rama Proxy - modular services framework
• Scaphandre - a monitoring agent dedicated to energy consumption
• SeaORM - an async and dynamic ORM
• Serde - serialize and deserialize Rust data structures
• Stakker actor runtime guide - a low-level single-thread actor runtime for Rust
• Tealdeer User Manual - implementation of tldr (help like man, but more approachable).
• The DNS Protocol
• The Nom Guide (Nominomicon) - a parser combinator library
• The Redox Operating System
• Thesus OS
• The Zebra Book