rust-lang/rustlings
:crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 441 days ago, with 414 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #20 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 18, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides small exercises to help users practice reading and writing Rust code.
- Offers a hands-on, incremental learning approach that complements the official Rust book for effective skill building.
- Use for beginners seeking interactive practice to reinforce Rust programming concepts.
- Use for educators designing practical Rust coding assignments for students.
- Use for developers wanting to refresh or improve their Rust syntax and problem-solving skills.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code - Recommended in parallel to reading the official Rust book 📚️
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+699 stars over 82 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +13 on Sep 9.
Forks
11.3K+42
Open issues
39+5
Compared with peers in Backend
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| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | 7 days ago |
| rust-lang/rustlings | 64.6K | — | 40 | 441 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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