STsteveklabnik·Feb 17, 2017
Myself and carols10cents.
We have also accepted small fixes and such from almost 70 other people as well https://github.com/rust-lang/book/graphs/contributors
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6 sourcesYes we are! There's someone working on Vietnamese [1]. It's a bit blocked on mdbook support [2], but the translation part could start before that's done. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 6 are effectively "frozen" for print at this point [3] so they'd be the place I'd recommend starting first!
[1] - https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/375
[2] - https://github.com/azerupi/mdBook/pull/200
[3] - https://github.com/rust-lang/book/projects/1
In Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” BookGood news! NoStarch will be printing an offline version soon ;)
Since we're concentrating on getting the text ready for print, we haven't been able to get pdf/offline reading working yet. https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/218
In Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” BookThis new book isn't finished yet, is it? If I remember correctly [0], there were several more chapters to go, and a likely timeline of months...
[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues
In Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” BookWhy do you have an `extern crate foo` line inside a module that I'm assuming (because of the `self`) is part of crate foo? You shouldn't need to `extern crate` inside that crate itself.
One thing that might be confusing is that `main.rs` is the entry file of binary crates, while `lib.rs` is the entry file of library crates, and a project can contain both a binary and a library crate. The binary crate then does need to `extern crate` the library crate.
We've been working on a new version of the book, if you have time, I'd love if you would take a look at the new chapter on modules [1] and file PRs or issues on the repo [2] if it's still confusing or leaving you with unresolved questions!
[1] - http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch07-00-modules.html
[2] - https://github.com/rust-lang/book
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