diff --git a/nostarch/acknowledgments.md b/nostarch/acknowledgments.md index 89d4adff..c29cb712 100644 --- a/nostarch/acknowledgments.md +++ b/nostarch/acknowledgments.md @@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ Karen Rustad Tölva for the cover art. Thank you to our team at No Starch, including Bill Pollock, Liz Chadwick, and Janelle Ludowise, for improving this book and bringing it to print. - - Carol is grateful for the opportunity to work on this book. She thanks her family for their constant love and support, especially her husband Jake Goulding and her daughter Vivian. diff --git a/nostarch/introduction.md b/nostarch/introduction.md index b3ff9b11..bcaed24c 100644 --- a/nostarch/introduction.md +++ b/nostarch/introduction.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ directory, so all fixes need to be made in `/src/`. # Introduction -Welcome to *The Rust Programming Language*, an introductory book about Rust. +Welcome to *The Rust Programming Language,* an introductory book about Rust. The Rust programming language helps you write faster, more reliable software. High-level ergonomics and low-level control are often at odds in programming language design; Rust challenges that conflict. Through balancing powerful @@ -62,12 +62,6 @@ devices, audio and video analysis and transcoding, cryptocurrencies, bioinformatics, search engines, Internet of Things applications, machine learning, and even major parts of the Firefox web browser. - - - ### Open Source Developers Rust is for people who want to build the Rust programming language, community, @@ -119,7 +113,7 @@ number guessing game. Here we cover concepts at a high level, and later chapters will provide additional detail. If you want to get your hands dirty right away, Chapter 2 is the place for that. Chapter 3 covers Rust features that are similar to those of other programming languages, and in Chapter 4 -you'll learn about Rust’s ownership system. If you’re a particularly meticulous +you’ll learn about Rust’s ownership system. If you’re a particularly meticulous learner who prefers to learn every detail before moving on to the next, you might want to skip Chapter 2 and go straight to Chapter 3, returning to Chapter 2 when you’d like to work on a project applying the details you’ve learned. @@ -182,10 +176,11 @@ that doesn’t compile. ## Resources and How to Contribute to This Book -This book is open source. If you find an error, please don't hesitate to file +This book is open source. If you find an error, please don’t hesitate to file an issue or send a pull request on GitHub at *https://github.com/rust-lang/book/*. Please see *CONTRIBUTING.md* at *https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md* for more details. The source code for the examples in this book, errata, and other information are available at *https://www.nostarch.com/Rust2021/*. + diff --git a/nostarch/preface.md b/nostarch/preface.md index 5ec23915..33b1a0fd 100644 --- a/nostarch/preface.md +++ b/nostarch/preface.md @@ -1,22 +1,22 @@ -# Preface +## Preface This version of the text assumes you’re using Rust 1.62.0 (released 2022-06-30) -or later with edition="2021" in *Cargo.toml* of all projects to use Rust 2021 -Edition idioms. See “Installation” on page 1 to install or update Rust, and see -Appendix E for information on editions. +or later with `edition="2021"` in *Cargo.toml* of all projects to use Rust 2021 +Edition idioms. See “Installation” on page 1 for instructions on installing or +updating Rust, and see Appendix E for information on editions. -The 2021 Edition of the Rust language includes a small number of improvements -that make Rust more ergonomic and correct some inconsistencies. This rendition -of the book has a number of improvements to address feedback: +The 2021 Edition of the Rust language includes a number of improvements that +make Rust more ergonomic and correct some inconsistencies. On top of a general +update to reflect these improvements, this rendition of the book has a number +of improvements to address specific feedback: -• Chapter 7 contains a new quick reference section on organizing your code into +* Chapter 7 contains a new quick reference section on organizing your code into multiple files with modules. -• Chapter 13 has new and improved closure examples that more clearly illustrate +* Chapter 13 has new and improved closure examples that more clearly illustrate captures, the `move` keyword, and the `Fn` traits. -• We fixed a number of small errors and imprecise wording throughout the book. +* We fixed a number of small errors and imprecise wording throughout the book. Thank you to the readers who reported them! - -Note that any code in earlier renditions of this book that compiled will +Note that any code from earlier renditions of this book that compiled will continue to compile with the relevant edition in the project’s *Cargo.toml*, even as you update the Rust compiler version you’re using. That’s Rust’s backward compatibility guarantees at work!