Rust Language Reference

Rust programming fundamentals. Ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, error handling, and tooling.

Topics

Topic	Description
Ownership	Move semantics, Copy vs Clone, scope and drop, smart pointers
Borrowing	References, mutability rules, String vs &str, slices
Lifetimes	Annotations, elision rules, structs with references, 'static
Structs	Fields, methods, impl blocks, derive, visibility
Enums & Match	Pattern matching, Option, Result, guards, destructuring
Traits	Trait bounds, standard traits, trait objects, orphan rule
Error Handling	Result, Option, the ? operator, thiserror, anyhow
Iterators	Adaptors, consumers, chains, implementing Iterator
Closures	Capture modes, Fn/FnMut/FnOnce, move closures
Cargo	Build, test, dependencies, workspaces, cross-compilation
Testing	Unit tests, integration tests, doc tests, assertions

Topic

Description

Move semantics, Copy vs Clone, scope and drop, smart pointers

References, mutability rules, String vs &str, slices

Annotations, elision rules, structs with references, 'static

Fields, methods, impl blocks, derive, visibility

Pattern matching, Option, Result, guards, destructuring