Rust for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide for JavaScript/TypeScript Developers

Welcome to this comprehensive guide on learning Rust! If you're coming from a JavaScript or TypeScript background, you'll find that Rust offers powerful features and a unique approach to programming - especially when it comes to memory safety and concurrency.

In this guide, we'll explore a wide range of topics designed to give you a deep understanding of Rust and its programming paradigms. Below is the list of topics we'll cover throughout this guide. Each topic is linked to its detailed article, so feel free to click on any topic to dive deeper.

• Introduction: Why Rust?
• Understanding Ownership and Borrowing
• Memory Safety without Garbage Collection
• Error Handling with Option and Result
• Functional Programming in Rust
• Concurrency and Parallelism
• Iterators and Closures
• Writing Simple CLI Applications
• Asynchronous Programming with async/await
• Macros and Metaprogramming
• Interfacing with C and the Foreign Function Interface (FFI)
• Using Rust for WebAssembly (WASM)
• Embedded Systems and Low-Level Programming
• Zero-Cost Abstractions and Performance
• Putting It All Together: Building a Rust Project

Throughout this guide, we'll include code snippets to illustrate key concepts. For example, here's how you might define a simple function in Rust:

fn greet(name: &str) {
    println!("Hello, {}!", name);
}

fn main() {
    greet("Rustacean");
}

Stay tuned as we dive into each topic in depth. Whether you're a complete beginner or have some programming experience, this guide is designed to help you gain a solid understanding of Rust and its ecosystem.

Happy coding, and let's embark on this journey into Rust together!