Rust Roadmap¶

• Roadmap: https://roadmap.sh/rust

1. Introduction¶

• 1.1 What is Rust?
• 1.2 Why use Rust?
• 1.3 Environment Setup
• 1.4 Installing Rust and Cargo
• 1.5 IDEs and Rust Toolchains
• 1.6 Rust REPL (Rust Playground)

2. Language Basics¶

2.1 Syntax and Semantics¶

• 2.1.1 Variables, DataTypes and Constants
• 2.1.2 Control Flow and Constructs
• 2.1.3 Functions and Method Syntax
• 2.1.4 Pattern Matching & Destructuring

2.2 Constructs¶

• 2.2.1 Enums
• 2.2.2 Traits
• 2.2.3 Structs
• 2.2.4 Impl Blocks

2.3 Data Structures¶

• 2.3.1 Integers
• 2.3.2 Floats
• 2.3.3 Boolean
• 2.3.4 Character
• 2.3.5 String
• 2.3.6 Tuple
• 2.3.7 Array
• 2.3.8 Vector
• 2.3.9 Hashmap
• 2.3.10 Hashset
• 2.3.11 LinkedList
• 2.3.12 Stack
• 2.3.13 Queue
• 2.3.14 Binary Heap

3. Ownership System¶

• 3.1 Ownership Rules & Memory Safety
• 3.2 Borrowing, References and Slices
• 3.3 Deep Dive: Stack vs Heap

4. Advanced Topics¶

• 4.1 BTreeMap
• 4.2 BTreeSet
• 4.3 RC
• 4.4 Arc
• 4.5 Mutex
• 4.6 RwLock
• 4.7 Channels

5. Error Handling¶

• 5.1 Option and Result Enumerations
• 5.2 Propagating Errors and ? Operator
• 5.3 Custom Error Types and Traits

6. Modules & Crates¶

• 6.1 Code Organization & Namespacing
• 6.2 Dependency Management with Cargo
• 6.3 Publishing on Crates.io

7. Testing¶

• 7.1 Unit & Integration Testing
• 7.2 Mocking & Property Based Testing

8. Concurrency & Parallelism¶

• 8.1 Threads, Channels and Message Passing
• 8.2 Atomic Operations & Memory Barriers
• 8.3 Futures and Async/Await Paradigm

9. Traits & Generics¶

• 9.1 Trait Definitions & Implementations
• 9.2 Trait Bounds and Associated Types
• 9.3 Generics & Type-Level Programming

10. Lifetimes & Borrow Checker¶

• 10.1 Explicit Lifetime Annotations
• 10.2 Lifetime Elision Rules
• 10.3 Covariant & Contravariant Lifetimes

11. Macros & Metaprogramming¶

• 11.1 Declarative Macros with macro_rules!
• 11.2 Procedural Macros & Custom Derive
• 11.3 Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)

12. Ecosystem and Libraries¶

12.1 Web Development¶

• 12.1.1 Axum
• 12.1.2 Actix
• 12.1.3 Leptos
• 12.1.4 Loco
• 12.1.5 Rocket

12.2 Asynchronous Programming¶

• 12.2.1 Tokio
• 12.2.2 async-std
• 12.2.3 smol

12.3 Networking¶

• 12.3.1 reqwest
• 12.3.2 hyper
• 12.3.3 quinn

12.4 Serialization / Deserialization¶

• 12.4.1 Serde
• 12.4.2 json-rust
• 12.4.3 toml-rust

12.5 Database and ORM¶

• 12.5.1 Diesel
• 12.5.2 sqlx
• 12.5.3 rusqlite

12.6 Cryptography¶

• 12.6.1 rust-crypto
• 12.6.2 sodiumoxide
• 12.6.3 ring

12.7 CLI Utilities¶

• 12.7.1 structopt
• 12.7.2 clap
• 12.7.3 termion

12.8 Game Development¶

• 12.8.1 bevy
• 12.8.2 fyrox
• 12.8.3 ggez
• 12.8.4 macroquad
• 12.8.5 wgpu-rs

12.9 GUI Development¶

• 12.9.1 tauri
• 12.9.2 gtk-rs
• 12.9.3 relm

12.10 Embedded and Systems¶

• 12.10.1 embedded-hal
• 12.10.2 rppal
• 12.10.3 nrf-hal

12.11 WebAssembly (WASM)¶

• 12.11.1 wasm-bindgen
• 12.11.2 wasm-pack
• 12.11.3 wasmer

13. Debugging¶

• 13.1 rust-gdb
• 13.2 rust-lldb

14. Performance and Profiling¶

• 14.1 Criterion.rs
• 14.2 Documenting with rustdoc