Re: [rust-dev] Newcomer to Rust: my experience

2015-04-17 Thread Dave Smith
It's good to see the rust-dev list still alive! ;) D. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Flavius Aspra flavius...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with the fact that, while the explanations in the tutorial are fine, they're way out of order. Even an experienced programmer needs time to digest the

Re: [rust-dev] Newcomer to Rust: my experience

2015-04-16 Thread Flavius Aspra
I agree with the fact that, while the explanations in the tutorial are fine, they're way out of order. Even an experienced programmer needs time to digest the material in its entirety. Rust would make a really good first-to-learn-language, unfortunately that material is not available yet. On

Re: [rust-dev] Newcomer to Rust: my experience

2015-04-06 Thread Oleg Eterevsky
Hi Wesley! That's a very cool analysis. This sounds very much like my thoughts about the tutorial. I think you'd better post it on http://users.rust-lang.org/, since it is the main place for Rust discussions now. The mailing list is almost dead. -- Oleg On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:23 PM Wesley W.

Re: [rust-dev] Newcomer to Rust: my experience

2015-04-06 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
Yes, I discovered this, thanks. I signed up for http://internals.rust-lang.org/c/documentation and posted it there. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Oleg Eterevsky o...@eterevsky.com wrote: Hi Wesley! That's a very cool analysis. This sounds very much like my thoughts about the tutorial. I

[rust-dev] Newcomer to Rust: my experience

2015-04-06 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
Good afternoon and happy easter, I am a newcomer to Rust and recently finished working through your tutorial. Before I get too much further into reading the standard library, I wanted to share my experience as a complete Rust newbie starting out only with your documentation, before I forget it. I

Re: [rust-dev] Newcomer to Rust: my experience

2015-04-06 Thread Ryan Hiebert
Thanks Wesley, for your writeup. I’m still learning Rust, and I think your post here is likely to give me some direction as I learn about some of the unique features of Rust. On Apr 6, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Wesley W. Terpstra wes...@terpstra.ca wrote: Yes, I discovered this, thanks. I signed