We’ve got two parallel streams going here. One is up to chapter 10 on Traits and the other on chapter 5 on Structs & Enums.

  • How are we feeling about Rust the language?
  • Any persistent confusions or difficulties?
  • Favourite features or success stories?
  • How are we finding “The Book” in general?
    • Personally, I think it’s good but not great and am definitely reaching out for other learning experiences or materials, lately finding myself going through the Std Lib Docs a bit
    • Andy Balaam’s Rust Tutorial Series over on peertube are also good and I recently remembered to watch them as I go

Otherwise … any thoughts or requests on what else can happen here for those going through “The Book”?

  • I’m thinking of having posts on sets of chapters once the two twitch streams have gotten up to them.
  • So right now, both have gotten through the borrow checker chapter (ch 4).
  • The idea would be to have a reading club happen here too … to allow written discussion/questions here for those not able to make the streams (or who like/prefer written discussion), but also to provide a retrospective for those who’ve gone through the streams.
  • Personally, in these discussions I’d post my understanding of the topic, look back on the quizzes to see what tripped me up, or any other practical issues I ran into, and post anything else I may have found that helped me on the topic. Basically to see what I actually learned from that chapter.
  • Thoughts??
  • Another thing I can think of is challenges and exercises. I tried one a while back, but I think it was too much/long, so smaller exercises would probably work better for getting us thinking/coding in rust. AoC has come up and there are plenty of others. Would regular posts from such a thing be welcome or helpful??
  • @JayjaderMEnglish
    2•1 month ago
    • scheduling a specific time or day seems less important to me compared to not making people wait longer than they need to, to discuss. I was thinking along the lines of “as soon as both streams have completed a chapter” + eventually “it has been at least x hours/days/weeks since the last discussion post” if we don’t want to spread the focus too thin all at once.
    • the schedule should at least force us to proactively adjust the scope of the challenges we set by acting as iterations of the project/activity/thing. We just need to pick a slightly easy challenge to start with, imo, so as to not make the first “iteration” too hard/long.
    • Digging into lemmy is definitely starting to become accessible. I don’t know if we want to try doing something collective yet or if we should leave it up to anyone who feels motivated enough to do a first foray and share their experience with us.

    Doing pretty great with rust so far on hobby projects. The read through of chapter 4 definitely feels like it helped cement some parts of lifetimes & ownership in my understanding.

    • @maegul@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Agreed

      The read through of chapter 4 definitely feels like it helped cement some parts of lifetimes & ownership in my understanding.

      Yea I had a similar feeling. I haven’t been using rust recently (for reasons), but when I got through chapter 4 I was quite happy and somewhat comfortable to just start hacking and looking up or reading about things as I needed them, as the borrow checker definitely seems like the most opaque and painful part of the language (so far!)