Very proud to announce that my book "Rust Web Development" is now published by Manning: https://www.manning.com/books/rust-web-development.
It was a long process, over 2 years in total. The book is using warp as a web framework, but the whole book is pretty much framework agnostic.
If you did some basic Rust, or come from a different language and wonder what all the fuzz is about, grab the book and give it a read!
Consider me a noob though, so excuse my ignorant question…
Why Rust for webdev vs other languages, eg python, RoR, clojure, JS or PHP with Laravel?
What are the benefits? What’s the sales pitch ;)
Or is that explained in the book?
Personally, the compiler and the type system had the biggest impact on both enjoying working in Rust, but also fearlessly jumping into new code bases!
Also, even if the book is agnostic to frameworks, will it still help me learn other frameworks like actix?
In my experience, most of the popular web frameworks in Rust are pretty minimal. Think Go's standard library or express from Node.
Also the goal of having a publisher "approve" of my writing was a huge motivation!
In the end, it helps to deliver chapters to the publisher and to the early-reviewer, so you always make progress and feel accomplishments along the way. I am not a type to self-publish this, maybe 5 years ago or in 10 years from now, but I am very happy what Manning offers and the care they give each writer.
Can't wait to get the final version on my doorstep!
Hmm... can't find it on O'Reilly yet. Will take a look when it's up.