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??