Rust Resources for Python Developers

Curated collection of books, tools, libraries, and community resources to accelerate your Python-to-Rust journey. All resources are chosen with Python developers in mind.

LearningPracticeBooksToolsLibrariesCommunity

Learning

The Rust Programming Language (The Book)

The official Rust book - comprehensive and beginner-friendly

Rust by Example

Learn Rust with examples (runnable and editable)

Practice

Rustlings

Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code

Books

Programming Rust (2nd Edition)

Fast, Safe Systems Development by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff

Rust in Action

Systems programming concepts and techniques by Tim McNamara

Zero To Production In Rust

Backend development, from beginner to production by Luca Palmieri

Tools

Cargo

Rust's build system and package manager

Clippy

A collection of lints to catch common mistakes and improve Rust code

Rustfmt

A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines

Libraries

Serde

Serialization framework (like Python's json/pickle)

Tokio

Asynchronous runtime (like Python's asyncio)

Clap

Command line argument parser (like Python's argparse)

Reqwest

HTTP client (like Python's requests)

Community

Rust Users Forum

Official community forum for Rust users

r/rust

Rust community on Reddit

Rust Discord

Real-time chat with the Rust community

Python to Rust Library Equivalents

Python Libraries

requestsHTTP client
jsonJSON serialization
argparseCLI argument parsing
asyncioAsync programming
unittestTesting framework
loggingLogging
datetimeDate/time handling
pathlibPath manipulation

Rust Equivalents

reqwestHTTP client
serde_jsonJSON serialization
clapCLI argument parsing
tokioAsync runtime
built-inTesting framework
log + env_loggerLogging
chronoDate/time handling
std::pathPath manipulation

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