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The Rust Programming Language

21 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 21 comments · first 2016-01-15 · latest 2025-12-21

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  1. …no matter how many enthusiastic public speakers I find. [0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/ [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/39aeceaa3aeab845bc451... [2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/index.html
    comment by aw1621107 · 2025-12-21 · in Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
  2. The link below ( https://github.com/rust-lang/book/tree/main/tools ) could imply the book was written as Word .docx with named styles, which enabled transformation into markdown for the mdBook?
    comment by Terretta · 2024-08-01 · in I prefer rST to Markdown
  3. Both public and tailor-made: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/tree/main/tools
    comment by steveklabnik · 2024-07-31 · in I prefer rST to Markdown
  4. …for this book, so it should be possible to convert the source of the book into an epub file. https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/main/first-edition/sr...
    comment by idoubtit · 2023-06-15 · in Effective Rust (2021)
  5. …examples are equally important as the discussion itself. Rust itself suffers from the same problem: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/3348
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-11-09 · in A guide to error handling in Rust
  6. I think (/ hope) that the later was picked up by being homed on GitHub - https://github.com/rust-lang/book
    comment by richardwhiuk · 2020-08-10 · in GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
  7. Rust book is written in Md https://github.com/rust-lang/book as well as plenty other books that I can't remember from the back of my head.
    comment by type0 · 2020-03-29 · in Show HN: Write.md – a shareable distraction-free Markdown editor
  8. …leave comments, we take the resulting DOCX, compile it back to Markdown, and address things. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/master/tools/docx-to-...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2020-03-24 · in Don't use markdown for documentation (2018)
  9. rust-lang/book https://github.com/rust-lang/book An excellent resource, being a newbie myself with a slightly different background, I find it really handy. Joining a community is also advisable, I use an unofficial one on telegram for this…
    comment by RMPR · 2019-10-02 · in Ask HN: Learning Rust
  10. I think the same guys published it here for free: https://github.com/rust-lang/book/tree/master/2018-edition/s...
    comment by pure-struggle · 2018-06-28 · in New Photon Release of Eclipse IDE Ships with Full Rust Support
  11. …and carols10cents. We have also accepted small fixes and such from almost 70 other people as well https://github.com/rust-lang/book/graphs/contributors
    comment by steveklabnik · 2017-02-17 · in Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book
  12. …"frozen" for print at this point [3] so they'd be the place I'd recommend starting first! [1] - https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/375 [2] - https://github.com/azerupi/mdBook/pull/200 [3] - https://github.com/rust-lang/book/projects/1
    comment by carols10cents · 2017-02-17 · in Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book
  13. …on getting the text ready for print, we haven't been able to get pdf/offline reading working yet. https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/218
    comment by carols10cents · 2017-02-16 · in Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book
  14. …correctly [0], there were several more chapters to go, and a likely timeline of months... [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues
    comment by ohazi · 2017-02-16 · in Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book
  15. Done, https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/397
    comment by Manishearth · 2017-01-11 · in The Rust module system is too confusing
  16. …you with unresolved questions! [1] - http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch07-00-modules.html [2] - https://github.com/rust-lang/book
    comment by carols10cents · 2017-01-11 · in The Rust module system is too confusing
  17. …your post? ( http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ ). It's what's in master right now, right? EDIT ah, https://github.com/rust-lang/book clarifies this, it's a rewrite, and is not (yet) part of the main Rust repository.
    comment by ronjouch · 2016-08-15 · in What’s New with “The Rust Programming Language”?
  18. I still failed, it's pass by value :( just like C. http://github.com/rust-lang/book is the repo, and has a link to the rendered version.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-03-31 · in OpenBSD 5.9 released early
  19. Thanks! You can follow along with the progress here, if you're interested: https://github.com/rust-lang/book
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-03-28 · in Concurrency in Rust
  20. Thanks. Where can I see the second edition draft? edit: This one? https://github.com/rust-lang/book.git
    comment by gnu · 2016-02-25 · in Rewrite Everything in Rust
  21. …I'm interested to compare and contrast my stuff with this. (First draft of the first chapter is https://github.com/rust-lang/book/pull/58 , I have PRs up for the other two, but they're not quite as polished yet)
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-01-15 · in A brief introduction to C++'s model for type- and resource-safety [pdf]