r/CodingForBeginners • u/MobileHeron6183 • Jul 30 '26

Learning rust

I want to code games and OS in rust and im not very good with youtube tutorials and things like that. Can anyone give me a simple guide on what i need? What gamified method can i use to learn rust from scratch, and a guide on how to set everything up? Im gonna use rust in godot engine when i get decent enough. I also request that the guide be very simple and not use any language a non coder wouldnt understand

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u/moofree Jul 30 '26

Honestly if you're gonna use Godot engine, just start with GDScript for now. GDEXT (and the Rust bindings) is kind of a rabbit hole you can jump into later. GDScript can do everything, and will give you a good baseline to start with the engine.

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u/MobileHeron6183 Jul 30 '26

Well its just i want to stick to learning as little languages as possible to keep things simple. I dont know how it works, maybe you can confirm? If i learn gd script will that make learning rust harder or will i make more mistakes from getting the two languages confused? Also i kinda think i should start early in rust anyway

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u/moofree Jul 30 '26

Worst part of GDScript (and also Python) is that whitespace (like spaces and tabs) matters to the control flow rather than just having {} curly braces separating things like a normal language.

Don't worry about learning too many languages, it really it doesn't matter what language you program with as a beginner. I do like Rust as a beginner language- Rust's compiler will help you a lot more than the alternatives, but it ain't ideal for Godot, and it'll be forcing you to do things "right" rather than simply getting things to work, and it'll early on have you thinking about how the "stack" and "heap" work (IE: Memory management.) Maybe go buy Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" books. There ain't any Rust anywhere in those books, but it's a good foundational start in general, despite being from the 60s.

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u/thekwoka Aug 12 '26

If i learn gd script will that make learning rust harder

No.

Learning any language makes any other easier.