by Jim Blandy
Rust is a new systems programming language that combines the performance and low-level control of C and C++ with memory safety and thread safety. Rust's modern, flexible types…
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A huge book that covers all the ground but unfortunately is extremely thorough in certain areas that are not very interesting (the language reference stuff) and glosses over the parts such as systems programming which people new to Rust and the area may have the most trouble with.<br/><br/>The question then is: What would be a good introduction into systems programming and is it up to a book like this to provide it? I think that if you claim that Rust is the prime language for that style of programming, you should provide more of an introduction to it and point people to further reading if they want to get deeper into it.