Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches

Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches has a single goal: to be the absolute easiest way for anyone to learn Rust as quickly as possible. I like to think of the book’s target audience as these types of people: People who are ambitious and want to learn Rust as quickly as possible, People with English as a second language, People who are curious but don’t have enough time in the day and just want to get to the information, People who have read another introductory Rust book and want to go over the basics again with something new, People who have tried to learn Rust, but it still hasn’t clicked

Dave MacLeod is a Canadian author who has lived in Korea since 2002, and in Japan for a few years before that. As a child, he created small role-playing games in BASIC, but later moved on to other interests. He returned to coding in the early 2010s and found Rust to be the language he wanted to devote himself to. He has worked as an educator, translator, project controller, and copywriter before becoming a full-time Rust developer in Seoul, Korea.

The Rust language was released in 2015 and, as of 2024, isn’t even a decade old. It’s quite new but already very popular, appearing just about everywhere you can think of—Windows, Android, the Linux kernel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Discord, Cloudflare, you name it. It is incredible how popular Rust has become after less than a decade.