I'm exploring the tutorial "Rust for Rubyists" at
[http://www.rustforrubyists.com/book/book.html], which in fact is not (only) for
rubyists, as stated in the introduction. Looks pretty good to me (just my
opinion), should definitely be pointed to from the Rust Docs page at
[https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Docs], and in good place. As a tutorial,
it is in my view far better than the "official" one, and is up-to-date (Rust
0.8), so maybe even just replace it; with a warning note.
The "official" tutorial is not a bad doc in itself (I guess) but is definitely
not a _tutorial_: in fact, it requires quite a knowledge of Rust, its
fundamental concepts and jargon. "Rust for Rubyists" certainly has room for
improvement, but it _is_ for sure a tutorial. I would definitely suggest to
start writing a new official tutorial by using "Rust for Rubyists" as raw
material. A first pass may be to make it slightly more general, just requiring
prior programming experience; Rust definitely is not a language for programming
novices, anyway.
Denis
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