Rust Programming Guide
Welcome to the comprehensive Rust programming guide. This tutorial takes you from complete beginner to professional-level systems programming, covering everything from basic syntax to UEFI firmware development.
What You’ll Learn
- Getting Started: Set up your development environment and write your first Rust program
- Fundamentals: Master ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and Rust’s unique memory model
- Intermediate: Collections, iterators, concurrency, and async programming
- Advanced: Unsafe Rust, FFI, macros, and performance optimization
- Patterns: Real-world design patterns for CLI, web, and embedded applications
- Systems: Bare metal programming, drivers, and kernel modules
- UEFI: Firmware development with Rust using uefi-rs
Quick Start
How This Guide is Organized
| Section | Description | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1: Getting Started | Environment setup, tooling, first program | Beginner |
| Part 2: Fundamentals | Ownership, borrowing, structs, enums, traits | Beginner |
| Part 3: Intermediate | Collections, concurrency, async/await | Intermediate |
| Part 4: Advanced | Unsafe, FFI, macros, performance | Advanced |
| Part 5: Patterns | Design patterns, CLI, web, testing | Advanced |
| Part 6: Systems | no_std, bare metal, drivers, RTOS | Professional |
| Part 7: UEFI | UEFI development with uefi-rs | Professional |
| Appendices | Libraries, ecosystem, glossary | Reference |
Prerequisites
- Basic programming knowledge (any language)
- Command line familiarity
- Willingness to learn something new!
Sample Code
All examples in this guide are tested and available in the examples/ directory. Each example includes:
- Complete, runnable Cargo project
- Detailed comments explaining the code
- README with instructions
Docker Quick Start
Don’t want to install Rust locally? Use our Docker environment:
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose exec rust cargo run
See Docker Setup for details.
Contributing
Found an error? Want to add content? Open an issue on GitHub.
This guide is community-maintained and not officially affiliated with the Rust Foundation. For official documentation, visit doc.rust-lang.org.