I know usually people don’t rave about books. But I have been thoroughly enjoying the Rust book and its quite pleasant to follow along.

For context. Initially I had vague interest over months and I watched general or entertainment stuff, so it wasn’t an issue in terms of learning. But once I got interested enough to actually start properly learn it, I found the tutorial videos quickly became boring or just lose me quick, and a lot of tutorial from many channels just cover the very surface level ideas or sometimes poorly communicates them (I later realized that some actually taught me things a bit wrong).

I love programming and know a bit of low-level things already so its not a difficulty thing or some big knowledge gap. I even watched book-based tutorials from Lets get Rusty but they never worked for me (Not to say the videos are bad! but I just never realized they don’t work for me). I think I really much prefer the reading format, probably due having control of time & information flow, if I were to guess why.

However, once I read the book, I enjoyed so much and went through like the first 5 chapters in one sitting (and practiced them the days after). And kept going back more and more. I can’t stop liking it and the way Rust work! I still have a bit to Go regarding borrowing and referencing but with time I’ll be good with it.

The book is really excellent. I really like it, and was one of the only ways I started getting into the Rust language a lot. Thanks a lot team!