Hand over to rust-lang?

[kud1ing]

With some sadness i've discovered the "not maintained" disclaimer.
People cite "Rust by example" as one of the most useful Rust resources.
Would it make sense and would there be interest in handing this repository over to rust-lang?

cc @japaric, @steveklabnik, @aturon, @brson

[abonander]

+1, would love to see this worked on more.

[benjycui]

+1, this project is very useful.

[steveklabnik]

I wouldn't be opposed to figuring out a way to transition this into an official repository.

[brson]

I think rust-lang should probably take it to try to keep it from bitrotting. Maybe having under the umbrella will encourage more contributions. I am wary of having more 'stuff' to keep watch over but rust-by-example is just another drop in the bucket next to all the other stuff present and future that rust-lang needs to maintain.

[aturon]

If we do this, we may want to migrate to https://github.com/aturon/rust-book, a Rust port of gitbook that's used to render the guidelines. It's a relatively easy conversion, and the output looks reasonable, but it doesn't have quite all the bells and whistles of gitbook (yet!)

[FranklinChen]

"Rust by example" has definitely been a useful resource to me. Let me know if there is something concrete I can do to contribute to keeping it alive.

[areski]

+1 This guide has been very useful to me too, huge thanks to @japaric

[tjkierzkowski]

+1 Thanks to @japaric! This resource has been helpful and was also my first real contribution to a Rust project :)

[orium]

+1. I have learn rust with this (while consulting the guide for more details). This is a very useful project to quickly get your hands in rust.

[strega-nil]

If anyone wants me to, I would be willing to take up maintaining this. I'm not the best at Rust, but I'm a student, so I have a lot of time.

Edit: and I have now sent a pull request that fixes every compilation issue.

[rohitjoshi]

+1

[tomjakubowski]

Thanks so much @japaric for creating such a great, comprehensive work of documentation!

[mquandalle]

👍

[mkaito]

👍

+1
I was pretty bummed out when I saw the warning. The guide is too lacking despite it being a good introduction of all the features included in the language.