Rust NYC!

Rust NYC: UnConf 2026

December 4, 2026 · 2–6 PM EST

A free afternoon of 20 interactive Rust tracks, followed by happy hour.

Details & free registration

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Meetup

• Meetup events
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Rust East Coast

Rust NYC is a part of the Rust East Coast group (organized on Discord) that shares resources with communities from other cities. Rust East Coast links

Resources

• Rust Lang book

Exercises

• exercism
• rustlings

Rust NYC curated exercises

File exercise!

Download this file: big.txt

1. Calculate number of bytes in file
2. Number of occurrences of the letter 'z' in file
3. Number of occurrences of all letters (case insensitive) in file

How does performance compare to this Python script version?

file_ = open("big.txt")
count = 0
for line in file_:
    for char in line:
        count += 1
print(count)