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Rust

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Official docs outline

20 sections
  1. Common programming concepts

    Variables and mutability, shadowing, scalar and compound types, functions, comments and control flow.

  2. Understanding ownership

    Ownership rules, move semantics, Copy vs Clone, stack vs heap, and drop.

  3. References and borrowing

    Shared and mutable references, the borrow checker, dangling references and slices.

  4. Structs and methods

    Defining structs, tuple structs, impl blocks, methods and associated functions.

  5. Enums and pattern matching

    Enum variants with data, Option, match exhaustiveness, if let and let else.

  6. Packages, crates and modules

    Crates, modules, paths, visibility with pub, use declarations and splitting code across files.

  7. Common collections

    Vec, String and UTF-8, HashMap and ownership of stored values.

  8. Error handling

    panic!, Result, the ? operator, unwrap/expect and when to panic.

  9. Generic types

    Generic functions, structs and enums, monomorphization and zero-cost abstraction.

  10. Traits

    Defining traits, default methods, trait bounds, impl Trait and blanket implementations.

  11. Lifetimes

    Lifetime annotations, elision rules, lifetimes in structs and 'static.

  12. Automated tests

    #[test], assertions, should_panic, unit vs integration tests and test organization.

  13. Closures and iterators

    Closures capturing environment (Fn/FnMut/FnOnce), Iterator trait, adapters and lazy evaluation.

  14. Cargo and workspaces

    Release profiles, publishing crates, workspaces and installing binaries.

  15. Smart pointers

    Box, Deref, Drop, Rc, RefCell, interior mutability and reference cycles.

  16. Fearless concurrency

    Threads, message passing with channels, Mutex, Arc, and the Send and Sync traits.

  17. Async programming

    Futures, async/await, tasks, streams and how async differs from threads.

  18. Object-oriented features

    Encapsulation, trait objects with dyn, dynamic dispatch and the state pattern.

  19. Patterns and matching

    Pattern syntax, destructuring, refutability, guards and bindings.

  20. Advanced features

    Unsafe Rust, advanced traits and types, function pointers and declarative and procedural macros.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
1.99.1 latest release, Oct 15, 2026
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1.99 Oct 1, 2026 1.99.1 Supported
1.98 Aug 20, 2026 1.98.1 Ended Oct 1, 2026
1.97 Jul 9, 2026 1.97.1 Ended Aug 20, 2026
1.96 May 28, 2026 1.96.1 Ended Jul 9, 2026
1.95 Apr 16, 2026 1.95.0 Ended May 28, 2026
1.94 Mar 6, 2026 1.94.1 Ended Apr 16, 2026

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