The new Rust book

[aturon]

Point of contact

@steveklabnik @carols10cents

Overview

The next iteration of "The Rust Programming Language", re-written from scratch based on experience teaching Rust.

The repository is here, and you can see the rendered current draft here.

Status

We have a draft of all chapters, other than the appendix. Rust 1.18 was the first Rust to ship with a draft. We're continuing with the editing process, you can see what stage each chapter is at here.

[steveklabnik]

TODO: update status here.

Do you want me to give a status, or is this for you to check in on?

[aturon]

@steveklabnik I've sent you an invite to collaborate; please edit the issue text directly, however you'd like.

[AndyGauge]

Recommended change As of 1/31/07 -> As of 1/31/17

[golddranks]

I'd like to see unambiguous dates like 31th of Jan, 2017 anyway, since the order of the fields is different in different countries and not all dates are unambiguous.

[sophiajt]

As a new immigrant to New Zealand, I second @golddranks - having to try to guess which comes first is a pain. Something less ambiguous would be nice.

[initram]

@golddranks we should all just start using ISO 8601 format (2017-01-31). See https://xkcd.com/1179/

[steveklabnik]

I've updated the description as of today.