Learn Rust by building real projects, one part at a time.https://learningrust.net/https://learningrust.net/project/cli-word-counter/https://learningrust.net/project/cli-word-counter/Your first real Rust program: read files from the command line, count words, and handle errors like a grown-up.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTclistderror-handlinghttps://learningrust.net/project/guessing-game-tui/https://learningrust.net/project/guessing-game-tui/The classic number guessing game, then rebuilt as a real terminal UI with ratatui.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTtuiratatuiloopshttps://learningrust.net/project/json-parser/https://learningrust.net/project/json-parser/Build a parser from scratch: an enum for the data model, a hand-written tokenizer, and recursive descent.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTparsingenumsrecursionhttps://learningrust.net/project/http-server/https://learningrust.net/project/http-server/No framework. Parse requests off a TcpStream, route them, and then make it concurrent with threads.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTnetworkingthreadshttphttps://learningrust.net/project/ownership-linked-list/https://learningrust.net/project/ownership-linked-list/The famous hard exercise. Build a list four ways and learn what Box, Rc, and RefCell actually buy you.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTownershipsmart-pointersunsafehttps://learningrust.net/project/async-web-scraper/https://learningrust.net/project/async-web-scraper/Tokio, reqwest, and structured concurrency: fetch hundreds of pages without hammering the server.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTasynctokiohttp-clienthttps://learningrust.net/project/key-value-store/https://learningrust.net/project/key-value-store/An append-only log, an in-memory index, and compaction — the core of how real databases work.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTstorageioserdehttps://learningrust.net/project/wasm-game-of-life/https://learningrust.net/project/wasm-game-of-life/Compile Rust to wasm, drive a canvas from JavaScript, and find out where the real cost is.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTwasmwebperformancehttps://learningrust.net/project/ecs-particle-sim/https://learningrust.net/project/ecs-particle-sim/Build an entity-component-system from scratch, then use it to push a hundred thousand particles.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTecsgenericsperformancehttps://learningrust.net/project/proc-macro-derive/https://learningrust.net/project/proc-macro-derive/Procedural macros demystified: parse a struct with syn, generate code with quote, and report errors properly.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmacrossynquotehttps://learningrust.net/project/embedded-blinky/https://learningrust.net/project/embedded-blinky/no_std on a microcontroller: blink an LED, read a sensor, and handle an interrupt safely.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTembeddedno-stdhardwarehttps://learningrust.net/project/rest-api-axum/https://learningrust.net/project/rest-api-axum/Handlers, extractors, sqlx queries checked at compile time, and tests that hit real routes.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaxumsqlxapi