The Oxide Programming Language

Welcome to The Oxide Programming Language, an introductory book about Oxide.

Oxide is an alternative syntax for Rust that provides familiar Swift/Kotlin-inspired conventions while producing identical binary output to equivalent Rust code. It maintains all of Rust's safety guarantees, ownership model, and performance while making systems programming more accessible.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers transitioning from Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, or C# who want to leverage Rust's performance and safety guarantees without navigating its unfamiliar syntax.

How to Use This Book

This book follows the same structure as The Rust Programming Language book. If you're already familiar with Rust, you can skip to the specific chapters that cover Oxide's syntax differences.