# First steps in Rust

[Canonical article](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/first-steps-in-rust/)

Published: 2020-06-30

Updated: 2020-07-02

Getting started with Rust.

I’ve started spending some of my spare time learning [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/?ref=ashryan.io). I’m not totally sure why yet, or what I’ll do with it, but I was curious.

As someone with a background in JavaScript, some experience with Java, and some minor dabbling in C, C++, Obj-C, Swift and a few others, I can say that the onboarding resources for Rust blow away just about any other canonical language orientations I’ve seen.

To learn, I’m going through their open sourced book *[The Rust Programming Language](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/?ref=ashryan.io)*. By chapter 2, I was already playing around, and by the end of chapter 3, I was able to start intuiting a bit on how to solve small problems on my own.

And I have to imagine others have written about this at length, but wow: Rust’s error reporting is insanely helpful. I’ve had to troubleshoot *just* enough Obj-C and Swift to know what it could be like instead.

I’m sure I’m nowhere close to writing top-class Rust yet, but even though I’m just a couple of sessions in, I don’t feel clueless, and I feel a little… empowered. That’s one hell of a first-time experience with a new programming language.

Who knows where this curiosity with Rust will lead me, but for now, I find myself looking forward to each next step.