Reddit mentions of Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

Link to Amazon for those interested: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Rust-Fast-Systems-Development/dp/1491927283/

The ISBNs are the same, so it is likely that they are the same book and the data on the UK site is just out of date.

• https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1491927283/
  
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491927283/

I'm confused. Steve Donovan is the author of the website A Gentle Introduction to Rust. I like Donovan's website a lot and use it together with Programming Rust and a few other resources in teaching.

Step Ahead with Rust, the linked book by Jonathan Creekmore and James Miller, doesn't seem to have anything to do with Donovan's website? I haven't had a chance to look at this book yet. Honestly, Programming Rust is great and thus I'm not really looking for another book right now, but maybe there's something in this one that stands out?

The OReilly book will also be out soon. It just went pre-order on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Rust-Fast-Systems-Development/dp/1491927283/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511901824&sr=8-1&keywords=Programming+Rust

Do you need something quite fast or really fast?

If its the first, Java is pretty good at is. Syntax is kinda verbose but that can change (hint: learn modern Java). JavaFX is one of the finest Java library I've ever tried so far. Gradle is the pip here in some aspect.

Don't like Java? Try Kotlin instead. 100%(-ish) interoperable with Java (some blog post found a few flaw in code conversion; some are not an edge case).

For the latter, Rust almost got all the points covered. The learning curve is quite high and the good news are the community are so welcoming; they wont treat you like a punching bag. Awesome way to include external libraries through Cargo and .toml files (its like NodeJS in a sense of ease of use).

Still, no mature desktop GUI toolkit yet if we don't count WebAssembly (plus rust-bindgen that handles interop with js nicely) in since its on the web.

For desktop, you can try the Qt binding if you like. You might found some unresolved issue and when you do, just ask in r/rust or SO and come back tomorrow to find it answered most of the time.

Books? Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Sytems Development and The Rust Programming Book (official live book; maintained by the team).

Hope this helps.

This is excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Rust-Fast-Systems-Development/dp/1491927283

Why not link directly to the content?

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I'm going to give a completely different idea that might be a hit or a miss. But Rust is a fairly new programming language that should be interesting to both C++ and Python programmers (C++ programmers that want more python in their language, and Python programmers that wants more C++ in their language).

I have not read this book, but Programming Rust, while new, got quite a few positive reviews. This might be the book your husband didn't even know he wants!