I'm very excited to hear this. Rust is a very promising language, and having good documentation really helps make the difference. I actually got a lot out of the tutorial for Rust when I read it, but there were a number of things that were out of date, and others that weren't covered at all. Rust for Rubyists was also a great guide when I poked through it a while back.
I think one of the sources of success for Golang is its "hit the ground running" approach which takes you from zero to hacker in a short amount of time. Rust is considerably more advanced than Go, but there's no reason that it can't adopt a similar attitude of pragmatism and real-world applicability (although its libraries might lag behind Go's). Having first-rate documentation is a huge step in that direction and a very promising development.
> I think one of the sources of success for Golang is its "hit the ground running" approach
Agreed! One of the weird things about Rust is that it's been open source since the beginning, where languages like Go and Swift have been closed for years before having their first release be very polished.
Rust will get there. Like most things, it just takes time and sweat.
2012 was just the first 0.1 release, it was public before that. Also, Rust is doing more interesting/experimental things than Go with significantly more iteration and change.
Can confirm, I've been involved in Rust since 2011 and Mozilla at large began talking about Rust (publicly, though without great fanfare) in 2010.
Furthermore, saying that Rust has been worked on "since 2006" is misleading. From then until 2009 it was just the work of one man idly tinkering in his free time, hardly a serious project.
I think one of the sources of success for Golang is its "hit the ground running" approach which takes you from zero to hacker in a short amount of time. Rust is considerably more advanced than Go, but there's no reason that it can't adopt a similar attitude of pragmatism and real-world applicability (although its libraries might lag behind Go's). Having first-rate documentation is a huge step in that direction and a very promising development.