Hopefully some of the issues you're noticing will get fleshed out before the guide is officially linked from the rust homepage.
I do agree with you though. I felt the same way about the guide from the first time I read (parts of) it, and I know we're not alone. I've commented before about how it's impossible to nail down the target audience, but it seems overly informal as a replacement to the current tutorials, especially compared to the "additional guides" that were linked to at the conclusion of the tutorial which really got down to business quickly.
I've long been hoping that something like rustbyexample.com gets officially sanctioned and linked to from the homepage alongside the guide. As a small metric, the current tutorial is 942 to Hello World, the new guide is 1595 words, and rustbyexample.com is 239 words.
I do agree with you though. I felt the same way about the guide from the first time I read (parts of) it, and I know we're not alone. I've commented before about how it's impossible to nail down the target audience, but it seems overly informal as a replacement to the current tutorials, especially compared to the "additional guides" that were linked to at the conclusion of the tutorial which really got down to business quickly.
I've long been hoping that something like rustbyexample.com gets officially sanctioned and linked to from the homepage alongside the guide. As a small metric, the current tutorial is 942 to Hello World, the new guide is 1595 words, and rustbyexample.com is 239 words.