The Rust Programming Handbook

I read this book because I often watch the YouTube videos of the author, so I was curious to see how he uses this different medium and read something different about Rust. Obviously the book cannot be compared to the official Rust book, also because the goals are different.

It presents all the topics with good examples; at the end of every chapter there is a summary and exercises that help to better understand the different topics. I appreciated the chapters dedicated to the peculiarities of Rust, like Ownership, Borrowing, References, and the Borrow Checker, and the chapter dedicated to concurrency.

If someone asked me how to learn Rust, I would say: read the official book and afterwards keep a copy of this book on the desk as a practical guide. Just to give an honest review, I have only one doubt about the last chapter dedicated to Docker.

I wonder if it could be skipped or made shorter. In any case Francesco, you did a great job.

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