Free course on freeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp's Rust Programming Course teaches Rust, a modern systems programming language designed for performance and safety. You learn ownership, error handling, pattern matching, and trait systems. The entire course is free on freeCodeCamp.org. After finishing, you understand Rust's core concepts and can write safe, fast systems programs. Rust is used in performance-critical applications, WebAssembly, and increasingly in backend services. The main limitation: Rust has a steep learning curve. The ownership model is powerful but unintuitive at first. Pair it with practice building small CLI tools.
Rust is used by 14.5% of professional developers and is the fastest-growing language adoption in the last five years (source: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025).
freeCodeCamp's full-length Rust course covering syntax, ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, structs, enums, error handling, and concurrency. Build CLI tools and small projects to internalise Rust's memory model. Completely free on YouTube.
RustBeginner
Microsoft Learn's official getting-started path for Rust. Covers fundamental syntax, the ownership model, common collections, error handling, and modules. Browser-based exercises and knowledge checks throughout. Free with a Microsoft achievement.
RustIntermediate
Google's free 4-day Rust course taught internally to Android engineers. Covers core Rust through bare-metal and concurrency in depth, plus Android-specific modules. Slides, speaker notes, and exercises are all open source. One of the most thorough free Rust resources available.