As I’ve joined the UK rust community it’s not been super-clear to me how to join in online. So here’s some resources to help you get stuck in.

https://www.rust-lang.org/community lists some of these, and more.

Online

• https://www.rust-lang.org/community
• The Official Rust Users Forum
• #general chat on The Official Rust Zulip
• reddit /r/rust - though note the announcement intending to get off reddit
• Awesome Rust Mentors - give and receive help with rust
• Women in Rust online meetup

Discord

• https://discord.gg/rust-lang - this is more about contributing to the Rust language itself rather than just using it, but still worth looking around
• https://discord.gg/rust-lang-community - this is where the user-community hangs out, lots of channels for particular interests (web dev, cli, async, security etc)
• The Rust Workshop has a Discord community server for the community around the business and those generally interested in hacking on rust things in the business world. To join use this discord invite link. You can often find us hacking on interesting things, sharing resources we’ve found etc. If you’d like to become part of the business it’s a good first step and any opportunities will go there first.

Social

• Twitter:
  • Follow relevant people and orgs on twitter. I’ve made a list here: Twitter RustLang List
  • And of course the hashtags are good for seeing who’s active in rust on twitter: Twitter #RustLang hashtag search
• BlueSky:
  • I’ve made a starter pack here: Bluesky RustLang Starter Pack
  • See what’s being tagged with the BlueSky #RustLang hashtag search

Suggestions for improvements to these lists welcome.

Matrix

I’d never heard of matrix, but apparently it’s a decentralized chat thing;

The rust embedded team hang out on matrix and you can find them here:

• https://github.com/rust-embedded/blog/issues/141
• https://matrix.to/#/#rust-embedded:matrix.org

I took the default suggestion and signed up with https://element.io/ using the web client.

IRL Meetup

• The London meetup: https://www.meetup.com/rust-london-user-group/
• Our very own meetup in Reading
• Rust Nation, the UK Rust conference: https://www.rustnationuk.com/
• Rust meetups by size
• All rust meetups on meetup.com