Community & coaching for developers exploring Rust

Go from Python to Rust, with real humans at your side

A community where developers coming from Python and other scripting languages learn Rust together, and coaching cohorts with a high-quality curriculum and real coaches reviewing your code.

Meet Bob & Jim: what Scripter to Rust is and how to get started

Four ways to get started with Rust

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6 weeks, 6 seats, every PR reviewed. Next: November 2026.

Run by Bob Belderbos & Jim Hodapp

What is Scripter to Rust?

A community

The Rust Never Sleeps Slack: developers coming from Python and other scripting languages, learning Rust together. Ask about the borrow checker, share what you built, get unstuck.

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Coaching

Cohorts with a high-quality curriculum and real human coaches who make learning Rust from scratch straightforward. You build a real project, and we review every PR you push.

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Go deeper: the cohort

Next cohort · November 2026 · 6 seats Build a production Rust library in 6 weeks → You build a JSON parser from scratch, wire it into Python with PyO3, and benchmark it against CPython, with a line-by-line review of every PR.

What a review looks like

Real pull request threads from past cohorts. Click a screenshot to enlarge it.

Code review on API design — API design: why `&[T]` beats `&Vec<T>` at a boundary

Code review on readability — Readability: flattening five levels of nesting, and the dialogue that follows

Code review on testing — Testing: stronger assertions, not tests written blindly

Code review on error messages — Error UX: a `Some(...)` wrapper leaking into a user-facing message

Code review on naming — Naming: descriptive over terse, the idiomatic Rust default

Code review on refactoring a loop — Refactoring: breaking a complex loop into focused methods

Who we are

Bob Belderbos: software developer and coach, building software for 20 years. Switched to Python in 2012 and co-founded Pybites, building coding platforms and coaching developers. Discovered Rust in 2024: his first serious compiled language, and an eye-opener for writing faster, safer code.

Jim Hodapp: seasoned software developer and coach with 25+ years of C/C++ and 5+ years of Rust in embedded and web development. Long-time contributor to open source projects like Ubuntu Linux and the GNOME desktop.