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![ Minimum Rust version: 1.28] ( https://img.shields.io/badge/Minimum%20Rust%20Version-1.28-red.svg ) for drafts of the 2018 edition
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+ ![ Minimum Rust version: 1.31] ( https://img.shields.io/badge/Minimum%20Rust%20Version-1.31-brightgreen.svg ) for the 2018 edition
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We've distributed a copy of "The Rust Programming Language," affectionately
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nicknamed "the book", with every version of Rust since Rust 1.0.
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teaching lifetimes.
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Starting with Rust 1.18, we shipped drafts of a second edition of the book.
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- The final version was shipped with Rust 1.26. The new edition is a complete
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+ The final version was shipped with Rust 1.26. The second edition is a complete
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re-write from the ground up, using the last two years of knowledge we’ve
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- gained from teaching people Rust. You’ll find brand-new explanations for a
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- lot of Rust’s core concepts, new projects to build, and all kinds of other
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- good stuff. Please [ check it
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- out] ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/index.html ) and let us
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+ gained from teaching people Rust.
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+ You can purchase [ a dead-tree version of the second edition from No Starch
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+ Press] ( https://nostarch.com/Rust ) . Now that the print version has shipped, the
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+ second edition is frozen.
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+ As of 1.31, the book has been completely updated for the 2018 Edition release.
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+ It's still pretty close to the second edition, but contains information about
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+ newer features since the book's content was frozen. Additionally, instead of
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+ publishing separate editions of the book, only the latest version of the book
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+ is published online. You’ll find brand-new explanations for a lot of Rust’s
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+ core concepts, new projects to build, and all kinds of other good stuff.
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+ Please [ check it out] ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html ) and let us
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know what you think!
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- You can also purchase [ a dead-tree version from No Starch
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- Press] ( https://nostarch.com/Rust ) . Now that the print version has shipped,
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- The names are a bit confusing though, because the "second edition" of the
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- book is the first printed edition of the book. As such, we decided that newer
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- so starting with 1.28, we've been shipping drafts of the next version, [ the
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- 2018 Edition] ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/2018-edition/index.html ) . It's
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- still pretty close to the second edition, but contains information about
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- newer features since the book's content was frozen. We'll be continuing to
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- update this edition until we decide to print a second edition in paper.
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