Learn Rust from an ex-Apple engineer

Hi! I'm Ben. I've taught Rust to hundreds of engineers. My goal with this course is to make the highest quality videos available for learning Rust.

Elements of Rust – Core Types and Traits

A quick-reference map of the Rust type system, with links to documentation. This resource is referenced throughout the video course.

1. Why Rust is Safe

Rust is a systems language with just as much control and performance as C or C++. And yet, it guarantees memory safety and thread safety at compile-time. How is that possible?

2. Hello Rust

The basics of Rust syntax: functions, variables, scalar types, ranges, conditionals and loops.

3. Panic!

Learn how to manage unexpected errors in Rust – division-by-zero, integer overflow, out-of-bounds array access, and failed assertions.

4. Structs and Resources

Structs can hold plain data, or they can represent unique resources with protection against copying.

5. Destruction

With no garbage collector, Rust relies on deterministic destructors to manage the lifecycle of objects. Write types that safely encapsulate raw resources, reason confidently about the scopes of locks, and understand the limitations of Rust's guarantees around resource leakage.

6. Enums and Polymorphism

Enums hold named alternatives (variants) with associated data. If you've never worked in a language with strong support for tagged unions, you'll wonder how you ever lived without them.

Coming Soon: Arrays and Slices

Rust has distinct types for fixed-length arrays, dynamic arrays, and slices. A slice is a borrowed reference into a sequence of elements owned by some other variable.