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

1. Some concepts are incomplete, as of March 2022. ↩