Your Complete Rust Roadmap: Beginner to Pro

From Systems Programming Beginner to Rustacean – Master Safe, Fast, and Concurrent Coding with Rust

Basic overview

What is Rust?

Why Learn Rust?

Estimated time commitment for the roadmap.

Phases of the Rust Roadmap

Phase 1: Introduction to Rust

What is Rust and Why Use It?

Setting up the Rust Environment (rustup, cargo)

Writing Your First Program: Hello, World!

Understanding cargo and Project Structure

Phase 2: Core Concepts

Variables, Data Types, and Mutability

Functions and Control Flow (if, match, loops)

Ownership and Borrowing

References and Slices

Structs and Enums

Pattern Matching

Phase 3: Memory Management & Safety

Understanding Ownership Deeply

The Borrow Checker

Lifetimes in Rust

Smart Pointers: Box, Rc, RefCell

Phase 4: Collections and Error Handling

Vectors, HashMaps, Strings

Iterators and Closures

Error Handling: Result, Option, unwrap, expect

match and ? operator for concise error management

Phase 5: Modules and Crates

Organizing Code with Modules

Using External Crates from crates.io

Building and Publishing Your Own Crate

use and pub keywords

Phase 6: Traits and Generics

Understanding Traits (Rust’s version of interfaces)

Implementing Traits and Using Derive Macros

Generics and Trait Bounds

Associated Types

Phase 7: Concurrency in Rust

Threads and spawn

Message Passing (mpsc)

Mutexes and Shared State

Using tokio for Asynchronous Programming

Phase 8: File I/O and System Programming

Reading and Writing Files

Working with the Filesystem (std::fs)

Command Line Arguments and CLI Parsing (e.g., clap)

Environment Variables and Process Handling

Phase 9: Web and Networking

Building REST APIs with actix-web or rocket

Making HTTP Requests with reqwest

JSON Serialization/Deserialization with serde

Intro to WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust

Phase 10: Testing and Debugging

Unit Testing with #[test]

Integration Testing

Logging and Debugging Techniques

Benchmarking Code

Phase 11: Advanced Rust

Macros and macro_rules!

Unsafe Rust and FFI (Calling C Code)

Pinning and async/await Internals

Procedural Macros

Phase 12: Projects and Real-World Practice

CLI Tools (e.g., Todo App)

Mini Operating System in Rust

RESTful API with Database (Diesel/Postgres)

WebAssembly-based UI App

Rust-based Game Engine (e.g., using Bevy)

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