Learning Guide to become Rustacean 🦀

1. Getting Started

• Learning Guide for Rustaceans
• Installing Rust (rustup)
• Rust Toolchain (cargo, rustc, rustfmt, clippy)
• Project Structure (src/, Cargo.toml)

2. Rust Basics / Core Concepts

• Variables & Mutability
• Constants & Static Variables
• Shadowing
• Primitive Data Types
• Complex Data Types (Arrays, Tuples, Slices, Strings)
• Functions
• Control Flow: if, match, loop, while, for

3. Ownership, Borrowing & Memory

• Ownership
• Borrowing (references, mutable references)
• Move semantics
• Copy vs Clone
• Lifetimes
• Memory Safety Rules
• Stack vs Heap
• Drop Trait and RAII Basics

4. Data Structures & Collections

• Structs
• Enums
• Tuples
• Pattern Matching & Destructuring
• Collections (Vec, HashMap, HashSet, BTreeMap, etc.)
• Option & Result
• Iterators
• Closures
• Implementing Custom Types (impl, methods, associated functions)

5. Modules, Crates & Packages

• Modules & Paths (mod, pub, super, crate)
• Crates (binary vs library)
• Packages & Workspaces
• Re-exporting modules (pub use)
• Standard Library Overview

6. Advanced Type System

• Generics
• Traits
• Trait Objects (dyn Trait)
• Associated Types
• Type Aliases
• Advanced Lifetimes
• PhantomData
• Sized / Unsized Types
• Newtype Pattern

7. Error Handling

• Result & Option
• ? operator
• Panic & Unwinding
• Custom Error Types (thiserror / anyhow)
• Error Propagation Best Practices

8. Concurrency & Parallelism

Threads & Sync Primitives

• Threads
• Send & Sync
• Arc
• Mutex
• RwLock
• Condvar
• Atomics

Async Programming

• async / await
• Futures
• Executors (Tokio, async-std)
• Channels (sync & async)
• Select operations

8. Programming Paradigms

• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Functional Programming Concepts
• Closures & Higher-Order Functions

9. Macros & Metaprogramming

• Declarative Macros (macro_rules!)
• Procedural Macros
  • Derive macros
  • Attribute macros
  • Function-like macros
• Build scripts (build.rs)

9. Concurrency & Asynchronous Programming

• Threads & Concurrency
• async / await
• Channels & Message Passing
• Mutex & RwLock

10. File I/O, Serialization & Networking

• File I/O (std::fs, std::io)
• Reading/Writing text & binary files
• Serialization / Deserialization with Serde
• JSON, YAML, TOML
• Building CLI tools
• Networking (TCP, UDP, HTTP)
• REST APIs (Axum, Actix, Rocket)

11. Functional & OOP-Inspired Paradigms

• Closures
• Higher-order functions
• Iterator combinators
• Composition over inheritance
• Polymorphism through traits

12. Unsafe & Low-Level Rust

• When to use Unsafe Rust
• Raw pointers
• unsafe blocks
• FFI with C
• Memory layout (repr)
• Inline assembly
• Zero-cost abstractions

13. Tooling, Debugging & Testing

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Documentation Tests
• Debugging (gdb/lldb)
• Logging (tracing/log)
• Profiling & Benchmarks
  • Criterion
  • Flamegraphs
• Linting (Clippy)
• Formatting (rustfmt)
• Rust Analyzer (LSP)

14. Architecture, CI/CD & DevOps

• Organizing modules & workspace architecture
• Release profiles
• Cross-compilation
• CI/CD pipelines for Rust
• Dockerizing Rust applications

15. Interoperability & Ecosystem Skills

• Python ↔ Rust (PyO3, pyo3-maturin)
• Node ↔ Rust (NAPI-RS)
• WASM (WebAssembly)
• Embedding Rust in other languages
• Calling Python/C++ from Rust

Additional Important Topics

• Smart Pointers (Box, Rc, Arc, Weak)
• Atomics & Memory Ordering
• Data-Oriented Design (SoA vs AoS, SIMD)
• cargo features & workspace patterns
• Publishing crates
• Popular libraries & frameworks:
  • Tokio
  • Axum
  • Serde
  • Clap
  • SQLX / SeaORM
  • Tonic (gRPC)

Pre-Rust Foundations

🧵 Stack vs Heap

Software Design Patterns

I have written the examples with AI / Data use cases

Category	Pattern	Rust Example
Creational	Singleton	Rust Code
	Builder	Rust Code
	Abstract Factory	Rust Code
Behavioural	Command	Rust Code
	Observer	Rust Code
	Strategy	Rust Code
	State	Rust Code
	Iterator	TODO
Structural	Adapter	Rust Code
	Decorator	Rust Code
	Facade	TODO
	Proxy	TODO

Frameworks

Framework	Purpose	tag
Tuari	to create small, fast, secure, cross-platform applications	cross-platform
dioxus	to building fullstack web, desktop, and mobile apps.	cross-platform
Burn	Deep learning framework like Pytorch for python	AI/ML
rig	Build modular and scalable LLM Applications in Rust	AI/LLM
axum	web application framework like fastapi in python	web
Yew	web assembly framework	web
leptos	web app framework similar like Yew	web
crux	Cross-platform app development in Rust	cross-platform
iced	Cross-platform GUI library	GUI
ratatui	Terminal User Interfaces	GUI

Rust Books

Online Books	Short Note
Awesome Rust Books	Offcourse, Awesome !
Rust Design Patterns	Important for production system and software principles
Comprehensive Rust	free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google
Easy Rust	Explained little more simple language and easy to follow.
Fast Track to Rust	Learn while building grep-like program, called rustle
Rust 101	Outdated may be but i liked the explanations.
The Little Book of Rust Macros	Learn about rust macros in detail

Free Video Courses

Course title	Publisher
beginners-series-to-rust	Microsoft

Don't miss to bookmark

Cheat sheets

• https://cheats.rs/
• https://speedsheet.io/s/rust

Forums

• https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/
• https://users.rust-lang.org/

Newsletters

• https://this-week-in-rust.org/

Rust Job Opportunity

• https://rustjobs.dev/

Commands

// toolchain commands
cargo new rust-learning --bin
cargo run
cargo new utils --lib
cargo run --example <filename>
cargo build --bin another-bin
cargo run --bin rust-learning
cargo run --bin another-bin

Top Macros

TODO: will have to convert into Macro.md file

• #[allow(dead_code)]

Rust Channels

• Discord : https://discord.gg/rust-lang-community

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