Carol (Nichols || Goulding) on learning Rust, teaching Rust, and building community

Notes

Chris talks with Carol (Nichols || Goulding), a Rust community team member, co-author of the first major revision of The Rust Programming Language, and co-founder of the first Rust consultancy.

Links

• XSLT (XML Style Sheet Transformations)
• Rspec
• Rails
• Think Through Math — remedial math tutoring app built with Rails
• Rust for Rubyists
• The Rust Programming Language
• Julia Evans
  • RustConf 2016 keynote
• Rust by Example
• Rustlings
• SASS
  • language
  • Carol’s in-progress implementation
• #rust-community — open meetings at 4pm UTC every Wednesday, with minutes available online
• first Rust community survey
• Rust community on GitHub
• new version of the book on GitHub — you can help, and especially if you’re new, because Steve and Carol both need input to deal with the “familiarity”/“curse of knowledge” problem
  • ownership and borrowing chapters
• RustConf
• RustFest
• Rust Belt Rust — October 27–28, 2016. Don’t forget to use code newrustacean to get 20% off of your registration cost!
• Integer32
  • Panoptics – nickel-jwt: crate | docs | source
• Jake (Nichols || Goulding) on Stack Overflow
• Friends of the Tree
• Friends of the Forest
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code
• Tilde
• The C Programming Language – the book Carol compared The Rust Programming Language to in terms of its responsibilities, and also one of the books from which Chris learned C.

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