Docs

Rust's primary documentation, including the tutorial, guides and manual, are on the Rust website.

• Master - documentation for the 'master' branch of the git repository.
• Release 0.10 - documentation for the latest release.

Additional supplementary documentation is maintained here on the wiki.

Tutorials/intros

Rust for C++ programmers - A cheat sheet
Rust for Rubyists - Excellent introduction to Rust
Teaching Rust
Examples - Where to look for examples of Rust
Rusticon - A glossary of terms commonly used in Rust and Rust tools.

Other documentation

Releases - Links to current and old releases and documentation
Detailed release notes - Further explanation of language changes
Community libraries - A curated list of external libraries for Rust
The Periodic Table of Rust Types
Reading and writing files
Attributes - The role of metadata in Rust code, with descriptions of many applications
Crate Hashes - How Rust generates crate filenames, versions symbols, and why
Computer Graphics and Game Development - Libraries and example projects
UVA Rust tutorial

Tools

Using rustpkg - Managing packages
Using rustdoc - How to extract Markdown and HTML documentation from code
Packages, editors, and other tools
Packaging Terminology
Unit testing - Writing tests and running them with the built-in test driver
Continuous integration - Test your GitHub-hosted packages with Travis CI

Platforms

getting Rust working on other platforms

Building for Android
Building for iOS

Guides in other languages

Présentation du langage Rust - Detailed documentation in French, with examples

Community

• IRC:

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  • #rust on irc.mozilla.org - Main Rust channel - general discussion
  • #rust-internals on irc.mozilla.org - Rust compiler and library development
  • #rust-gamedev on irc.mozilla.org - game development in Rust
  • #rust-osdev on irc.mozill.org - OS development in Rust
  • #rust on irc.ozinger.org - Korean Rust community

• Mailing list rust-dev

• Reddit's r/rust

• User groups

  • Rust Bay Area
  • Rust Korea
  • Rust Skåne
  • Rust Samurai 其ノ壱
  • Rust 中文圈 (on Google+)

Blogs

People sometimes write about Rust. Interesting stuff usually appears on r/rust.

Some Rust classics:

• A 30 minute introduction to Rust
• Pointers in Rust: A Guide
• Garbage collection thoughts
• Understanding pointers, ownership and lifetimes in Rust
• A taste of Rust
• An overview of memory management in Rust
• Which pointer should I use?
• Lifetimes explained
• Little things that matter in language design
• Operator overloading in Rust
• Embedding Rust in Ruby
• A first parallel program in Rust
• FizzBuzz revisited
• Ownership types in Rust, and whether they're worth it
• Reasoning about the heap in Rust
• The Option Type
• How I got started hacking rustc
• Abstraction penalties, stack allocation, and ownership types
• Présentation de Rust 0.8 - A very detailed article about Rust 0.8, in French!

Presentations

• Rust: Safe Systems Programming with the Fun of FP - Felix Klock, CodeMesh 2014
• Guaranteeing Memory Safety in Rust - Niko Matsakis
• Bay Area Meetup, May 2014 - John Regehr - Fuzzing and Reducing, testing topics.
• Bar Area Meetup, March 2014 - Julia Evans: Building a Kernel in Rust, more.
• Bay Area Meetup, February 2014 - David Renshaw - Cap'n'Proto, Steven Fackler - macro export, Kevin Cantu - testing.
• Bay Area Meetup, January 2014 - Brian Anderson - Rust 1.0; Niko Matsakis - dynamically sized types; Kevin Ballard - Lua bindings; Corey Richardson - evangelism.
• Niko's linux.conf.au talk 2014 - Memory ownership and Lifetimes. January 10, 2014.
• Bay Area Meetup, December 2013 - Alex Crichton - Channel Performance; Steve Klabnik - documentation; Chris Morgan - documentation; Luqman Aden - Minecraft chat client.
• Bay Area Meetup, November 2013 - Brian Anderson - Rust community; Patrick Walton - SprocketNES; Frank Denis - Rust at OpenDNS; Yehuda Katz - Embedding Rust in C.
• John Clements, 10-minute talk (video) at SoCal PLS on Rust, Macros, and Hygiene. December 2013.
• Felix's Codemesh 2013 slides
• Geoffroy Couprie's Scala.IO 2013 slides
• Steve's presentation at RuPy 2013 "Nobody Knows Rust." slides, video to come soon
• Tim's presentation at OS Bridge 2013 - And slides
• Niko's presentation at Northeastern - Slides only
• An I/O system for Rust - Eric Reed's intern presentation on I/O
• Types of Types - Ben Blum's intern presentation on 'kinds'
• Default methods in Rust - Michael Sullivan's intern presentation on default methods
• A work stealing runtime for Rust - Aaron Todd's intern presentation on the Rust scheduler
• Dave Herman's StrangeLoop 2012 talk