Resources for Learning Rust

I just started delving into Rust last week with the release of the Rust Guide. In Web Development, I really have moved away from the “bare level” languages of my schooling into the flighty realm of scripting languages. For the most part, I’ve been quite satisfied to leave behind the rigors of memory management and obtuse C linking errors for PHP, JavaScript and Python.

Yet, Rust is the first systems language that really has gotten me excited to sit down and try it out. Maybe get back into the indie game scene (which I have been saying forever).

This post is going to be updated semi-regularly as just a continuing list of Rust resources worth looking into:

Learning the Language

• The Official Rust Guide
• Rust by Example
• Notes about Rust Modules
• Piston Tutorial
• This was quite buried in their repository. But it gives a good structure to get started.
• Piston Move Square Repository
• I learned a lot reading though this code on how to get things started with Piston.

Resources

• Piston Framework: A framework for making games with Rust
• Ncollide: A collision library for Rust
• GLFW: Not a rust resource, but a C library. Piston links to it so it seems relevant.
• How to Install GLFW-3: Since I couldn’t figure it out from GLFW’s documentation.
• Tepee - Rust HTTP Toolkit

Community

• #rust, #rust-gamedev, and #rust-webdev on irc.mozilla.org
• SubReddit for the Language
• SubReddit for Rust GameDev