Step-by-step guides for setup, your first projects, interview prep, and contributing to open source.
Install Rust and get your editor ready in under 30 minutes.
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Download and install the official Rust toolchain manager from rustup.rs.
Run `rustc --version` and `cargo --version` in your terminal.
Install rust-analyzer for VS Code, Cursor, or Neovim for autocomplete and inline errors.
Create a project with `cargo new hello_rust` and run `cargo run`.
A structured first week: read, practice, and join the community.
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Read chapters 1–4 of The Rust Book
Covers installation, guessing game, common concepts, and ownership basics.
Hands-on drills that reinforce each chapter concept.
Keep the cheat sheet open while coding — you'll reference it constantly.
Ask questions on users.rust-lang.org or the official Discord.
Build a real command-line program with Cargo — from project layout to parsing args and handling errors.
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Understand projects, dependencies, tests, and `cargo run` before writing your tool.
Clone the Command-Line Rust repo
Follow along with Ken Youens-Clark's project-based guide — each chapter builds a Unix-style tool.
Start with a small `grep`- or `wc`-style binary using clap for argument parsing.
Catch unidiomatic patterns early — essential habit for any CLI you share or open-source.
Go from async basics to a production-ready HTTP service with Axum and real-world deployment patterns.
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Grasp futures, async/await, and Tokio fundamentals before building an API.
Build routes, extractors, and JSON handlers — the modern Rust web stack.
Practice spawning tasks and async I/O that Axum builds on.
Learn testing, configuration, observability, and deployment for a service you'd run in prod.
A focused seven-day plan to sharpen fundamentals, practice problems, and tricky Rust semantics before interviews.
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Review ownership and lifetimes
Re-read The Rust Book chapters 4–10 — the core of most Rust interview questions.
Practice writing idiomatic solutions with mentor feedback on each submission.
Test yourself on surprising ownership, lifetime, and type-system edge cases.
100 coding problems and 120 theoretical questions covering traits, async, and more.
Short puzzles that expose gaps in your mental model — great last-minute prep.
Follow the full Interview Prep path
See all curated resources in order — including Crust of Rust and reading production code.
Learn to read real Rust codebases, navigate tooling, and find your first meaningful open-source contribution.
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Go-to-definition, inline types, and diagnostics make reading unfamiliar code much faster.
A well-structured, widely admired codebase — start with `cargo build` and read `main.rs`.
Jon Gjengset walks through real code — lifetimes, iterators, and patterns you'll see in the wild.
Recognize idioms in the code you read — builders, newtypes, RAII, and error handling.
Filter rust-analyzer or ripgrep issues labeled `good first issue` or `E-easy` and ask on Discord if stuck.