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by AsyncAwait 3414 days ago
Another excellent book is "Programming Rust"[1], especially if you already know C/C++

1 - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920040385.do

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I've been reading the early access version for a while now, and it is excellent. I hadn't had much luck with the "official" documentation, previously.

Jim Blandy's writing is an exemplar for good teaching technique, and this book is shaping up to be the go-to recommendation for learning Rust, in my opinion.

I have been reading it as well. For my taste, it is a bit too verbose.

I like to see something along the lines of the K&R book or the GoPL book. I was hoping that "Programming Rust" is such a book, but I was disappointed. And (may be it is just me) I like to see exercises in Programming books.

C an Go are pretty concise languages so they lend themselves to K&R and GoPL. Rust is a big language (like C++) and is still changing quite a bit so I don't think you'll get a similar tome in the near future. (imo)
Co-author of TRPL here; Jim's book is wonderful too, and very different. I think they compliment each other nicely.

I wish there were 50 books on Rust. :)

> Jim's book is wonderful too ... I think they compliment each other nicely.

Ha, well that's certainly true, as evidenced by your first sentence, I think, you meant complEment!

Yes, I meant both :sweat_smile:
So, if I want the paper book when it's out, and to read the early release ebook now, do I have to pay twice?
Seems like it. Unfortunately O'Reilly doesn't seem to offer discounts on Book+Ebook for preorders.