Rust¶

Rust is a systems programming language focused on performance, reliability, and memory safety without a garbage collector. Its ownership model, checked at compile time, eliminates whole classes of bugs (use-after-free, double frees, data races) while still compiling to fast native code. Paired with Cargo, its build tool and package manager, it's well suited to CLIs, network services, infrastructure tooling, and anything where correctness and speed both matter.

Guides¶

Fundamentals¶

Understanding Ownership, Moves, and Borrowing The core mental model behind Rust: scope and drop, moves, shared and mutable references, the borrowing rules, Copy vs. Clone, slices, lifetimes, and smart pointers like Rc, Arc, and Mutex. Includes a table of the most common ownership-related compiler errors.

Troubleshooting¶

Fixing "use of partially moved value": Moving vs. Borrowing in Patterns A worked example of compiler error E0382 inside a match: why binding a field in a pattern moves it, what the compiler's ref suggestion really means, and five idiomatic fixes.

Architecture and design¶

Architecting Rust Projects: A Comprehensive Guide How to structure and ship Rust projects: crates, modules, and workspaces; layered architecture with traits at the boundaries; configuration, error handling, logging, and async; type-driven design, traits, iterators, and other core idioms; testing, tooling, CI, and release builds; plus common anti-patterns and a new-project checklist.

External resources¶

The Rust Programming Language: the official book
Rust by Example: learn through annotated, runnable examples
The Cargo Book: builds, dependencies, workspaces, and features
Rust API Guidelines: conventions for idiomatic APIs
Standard library docs
Rust Playground: run snippets in the browser