David MacLeod

Dave MacLeod is a Canadian who has lived in Korea since 2002, living in Japan a few years before that. As a child in the 1980s, he made small role-playing games in BASIC on the family’s ADAM computer, but after a local Logo competition, he decided that programming was not for him. He felt the urge to code again in the early 2010s, but it was not until he came across Rust that he found a language to devote himself to. He speaks a number of natural languages, including Korean and Japanese, as well as the constructed language Occidental. He has worked as an educator, translator, project controller, and copywriter before becoming a full-time Rust developer in Seoul, Korea.

books by David MacLeod

Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches
  • February 2024
  • ISBN 9781633438231
  • 568 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white

Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches breaks down the Rust language into concise hands-on lessons designed to be completed in an hour or less. The examples are fun and easy to follow, so you’ll quickly progress from zero Rust knowledge to handling async and writing your own macros. You won’t even need to install Rust—the book’s code samples run in the browser-based Rust Playground. There’s no easier way to get started!