The Rust Programming Language
The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nicholsby Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
Shares rank 71 of 115 programming books by recommenders
Recommended for its Rust learning resources, including Brown PLT's trait debugger and an OOP patterns section. Critics say Brown's borrowing chapter changes are worse.
Recommended for its Rust learning resources, including Brown PLT's trait debugger and an OOP patterns section. Critics say Brown's borrowing chapter changes are worse.
4 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 3 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Extra Brown PLT learning resources
“Brown PLT group has a lot of Rust resources like a debugger for traits”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation” Covers OOP patterns in Rust
“The rust book also has a section on OOP patterns in Rust.”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Some early chapters can be skimmed
“There's some early chapters that can be skimmed through”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “C for Rust programmers” Brown borrowing chapters judged worse
“the alterations Brown makes to the chapters on borrowing are strictly worse”
Comment from 6 Jun 2026 in “Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers”
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| The Pragmatic Programmerby Hunt and Thomas | 28 | 1 | 97% | 7 | — | Approved |
| How to Design Programsby Felleisen, Findler, Flatt and Krishnamurthi | 18 | 2 | 90% | 7 | — | Approved |
| The Rust Programming Languageby Steve Klabnik and Carol NicholsThis page | 3 | 1 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 4 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“There's some early chapters that can be skimmed through”
“the alterations Brown makes to the chapters on borrowing are strictly worse”
“The rust book also has a section on OOP patterns in Rust.”
“Brown PLT group has a lot of Rust resources like a debugger for traits”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.