Learn Rust from scratch
a project by pherranz
Updated over 3 years ago. 7 hacker ♥️. 7 followers.

Project Description

As I do not work as a developer per se, I love developing new code and learning new technologies that arise in this world. The Rust language is defined as Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language. Rust emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency.

Goal for this Hackweek

During this Hackweek 21 I'd like to learn this "new" language and maybe take some challenges from codewars.com in order to check my results.

Resources

  • https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
  • https://www.codewars.com

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Looking for hackers with the skills:

rust

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Hack Week 21

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    • Comments

    • amanzini
      over 3 years ago by amanzini | Reply

      I'm doing the same, exploring the Rust language using also these other resources:

      https://github.com/Dhghomon/easy_rust

      https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings

      https://practice.rs/why-exercise.html

      :)

    • afeijoo
      over 3 years ago by afeijoo | Reply

      Me too, following: - https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/index.html

      I'm using Eclipse as IDE (https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/photon/rc3/eclipse-ide-rust-developers), it's not the latest version, but it works fine.

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