Rust materials: books, channels, podcasts and more

This is not really a fire-once post, but rather a living document of quality resources around the Rust programming language I find useful and want to share (most likely with my future self).

Books

My preferred source of knowledge, especially in the era of AI slop cesspool. In general, I find O’Reilly and No Starch Press to be the best publishers for programming books. The publishers I didn’t mention are not necessarily bad but, to my experience, they should be more picky with the books they publish and the quality of authors thy work with.

Beginner-friendly

• Programming Rust by by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. S. Tindall

• Effective Rust by David Brysdale

• Zero to Production in Rust by Luca Palmieri

Intermediate and advanced

• Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset

• Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos

YouTube channels

Personal

• Jon Gjengset - author of the Rust of Rustaceans book and the Crust of Rust YouTube series.

• Logan Smith

Conference recordings

Going to conferences and meeting fellow Rustaceans is great, but personal travel budgets are limited. Watching the talks on YouTube is the next best thing (plus it’s easier to escape from a boring talk, speed-up slow speakers and re-watch the good ones).

• EuroRust

• Rust Foundation - RustConf, Rust Global, and more.

• Rust Videos - also RustConf, plus some other events and talks.

• Rustikon 2025

• RustLab

Blogs and newsletters

Official

• This Week in Rust

• Rust Blog

Personal

Best to follow such blogs via RSS, especially that the authors don’t publish regularly. Yes, Don’t be a slave to the algorithm.

• Ralf’s Ramblings

• Faultlore

• Mara’s Blog

• Without Boats

• Geo’s Notepad

Podcasts

• Rust in Production

• Rustacean Station

• New Rustacean - the last episode was released in 2019, but I’m leaving it as an honorary mention as I learned a lot from it back in 2016-2018. Still worth a listen!

Other resources

• Rustonomicon - unsafe Rust

• Codewars - not Rust-specifc, but I learned plenty of tricks from solving Rust katas there and looking at other people’s clever solutions.

• My Rust list on GitHub - projects I starred and added as useful for Rust development. Not a comprehensive list, and I probably missed some gems (not the Ruby ones) that I even use regularly.

Purgatory

Resources I mean to check out but I haven’t yet validate if they are of good quality:

• Microsoft Rust learning resources