Hi from the author! 👋 about rust-in-action HOT 5 OPEN

Thanks for the kind words. Glad to hear that you're enjoying the read.

Just a note on formatting.. the Manning publishing requirements mean that sometimes I need to neglect the rustfmt rules.

Rust in Action is intentionally different than the other resources available. Its (tacit) aim is programmers from dynamic languages who are trying to learn about the Rust/Go/D/Swift/C++17 space. That's why it might come across as a little less in-depth. Also, I think that it would be naive to think that readers of my work haven't already read through read through the official book and perhaps Rust by Example. So I've attempted to avoided duplicating lots of content.

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Hi Tim!
Nice to have you here! 🙂 🍻 🙂

Closer to the point:

• Readability is quite nice and examples are easy to follow. But, probably, I'm not really a person to ask, cause this is not my first Rust book. I personally find it more relaxing and not so in-depth dive into Rust than the official one (or is it just the first chapters impression? 🤔). At this point I will probably recommend it for a newcomer, who wants a soft start with a language. 💯

• Source code is also OK. I don't remember noticing any big (at least) errors, but will probably recommend running it through rustfmt + clippy once again before the release. 👷

• This repo didn't contain snippets not available in the book. I didn't looked at the provided source code (at least for now).

• I probably already answered this question earlier. 🙂

I don't really think I should check it out on copyrights, cause I don't sell it anyhow. I hand-write all myself and it is really not a one-to-one copy either. For example, I like to use names beginning with underscore, then global compiler relaxation directive. For clearance, I also include link to the book for anyone interested. 😉

Thank you for your work! 🎊

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@timClicks Listing 5.5. u16 Bit Patterns uses different variable names thus will not compile.
Needs a typo fix. 🐛

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Hi @timClicks!
Listing 6.2 needs a println! args fix. 🐛
Listing 6.15 probably needs a workaround of nasty mesa bug on Linux. 🐛 🐧

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The nasty mesa bug @barabadzhi talked about has been fixed with mesa 18.*.

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