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License This project is dual-licensed under the MIT License and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0). Trademarks This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject t Seven training courses covering Rust from different programming backgrounds, plus deep-dives on async, advanced patterns, and engineering practices.
License This project is dual-licensed under the MIT License and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0).
Trademarks This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.
Rust Training Books
Seven training courses covering Rust from different programming backgrounds, plus deep-dives on async, advanced patterns, and engineering practices.
This material combines original content with ideas and examples inspired by some of the best resources in the Rust ecosystem. The goal is to present an in-depth, technically accurate curriculum that weaves together knowledge scattered across books, blogs, conference talks, and video series into a cohesive, pedagogically structured experience.
Disclaimer: These books are training material, not an authoritative reference. While we strive for accuracy, always verify critical details against the official Rust documentation and the Rust Reference.
Inspirations & Acknowledgments
- The Rust Programming Language — the foundation everything builds on
- Jon Gjengset — deep-dive streams on advanced Rust internals,
Crust of Rustseries - withoutboats — async design,
Pin, and the futures model - fasterthanlime (Amos) — systems programming from first principles, engaging long-form explorations
- Mara Bos — Rust Atomics and Locks, concurrency primitives
- Aleksey Kladov (matklad) — Rust analyzer insights, API design, error handling patterns
- Niko Matsakis — language design, borrow checker internals, Polonius
- Rust by Example and Rustonomicon — practical patterns and unsafe deep-dives
- This Week in Rust — community discoveries that shaped many examples
- Binary Musings - Tag(Rust) — Deep dive into Rust internals
- …and many others in the Rust community at large whose blog posts, conference talks, RFCs, and forum discussions have informed this material — too numerous to list individually, but deeply appreciated
📖 Start Reading
Pick the book that matches your background. Books are grouped by complexity so you can chart a learning path:
| Level | Description |
|---|---|
| 🟢 Bridge | Learn Rust coming from another language — start here |
| 🔵 Deep Dive | Focused exploration of a major Rust subsystem |
| 🟡 Advanced | Patterns and techniques for experienced Rustaceans |
| 🟣 Expert | Cutting-edge type-level and correctness techniques |
| 🟤 Practices | Engineering, tooling, and production readiness |
| Book | Level | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Rust for C/C++ Programmers | 🟢 Bridge | Move semantics, RAII, FFI, embedded, no_std |
| Rust for C# Programmers | 🟢 Bridge | Swift / C# / Java → ownership & type system |
| Rust for Python Programmers | 🟢 Bridge | Dynamic → static typing, GIL-free concurrency |
| Async Rust | 🔵 Deep Dive | Tokio, streams, cancellation safety |
| Rust Patterns | 🟡 Advanced | Pin, allocators, lock-free structures, unsafe |
| Type-Driven Correctness | 🟣 Expert | Type-state, phantom types, capability tokens |
| Rust Engineering Practices | 🟤 Practices | Build scripts, cross-compilation, CI/CD, Miri |
Each book has 15–16 chapters with Mermaid diagrams, editable Rust playgrounds, exercises, and full-text search.
Tip: Browse the rendered books with sidebar navigation and search at the GitHub Pages site.
Local preview: For offline reading or while contributing (install Rust first):
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/RustTraining.git cd RustTraining cargo install mdbook mdbook-mermaid cargo xtask serve # http://localhost:3000
🔧 For Maintainers
Building, serving, and editing the books locally
Prerequisites
Install Rust via rustup if you haven't already, then:
cargo install mdbook@0.4.52 mdbook-mermaid@0.14.0
Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/RustTraining.git
cd RustTraining
Build & serve
cargo xtask build # Build all books into site/ (local preview)
cargo xtask serve # Build and serve at http://localhost:3000
cargo xtask deploy # Build all books into docs/ (for GitHub Pages)
cargo xtask clean # Remove site/ and docs/
To build or serve a single book:
cd c-cpp-book && mdbook serve --open # http://localhost:3000
Deployment
The site auto-deploys to GitHub Pages on push to main via .github/workflows/pages.yml. No manual steps needed.
What people are saying
“RustTraining: Beginner, advanced, expert level Rust training material”
HN↑ 24simonpure↗
“Direct clickable links... — You can directly access the training material by clicking on the links inside README. All: https://microsoft.github.io/RustTraining/ C++: https://microsoft.github.io/RustTraining/c-cpp-book/ …”
GH↑ 22atulkhare4096↗
“Thread for notable forks... — A Chinese language fork is available here: https://zcg.github.io/RustTraining/”
GH↑ 4atulkhare4096↗
“Learn From JS/TS? — Which level/bridge should I choose if I'm coming from a programming language like javascript/typescript or ruby?”
GH↑ 1caturhidayat↗
“Added a hosted web version of the Rust Training content — I created a hosted version of this Rust training to make it easier for users to access the content without needing to clone the repository and run cargo build eve…”
GH↑ 1adarshdhital007↗
“SATELLITE”
GH↑ 1Ghost-CEO1↗
“The whole "book" seems to be AI-generated, or at least very heavily AI-edited. Would at this point it not be easier to just tell developers to use their LLM of choice to achieve the same (or, likely, better) result? Rand…”
HNTiberium↗
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