Easy Rust is now being recorded in Korean

Close to a year ago I put together a bunch of videos for my Easy Rust book, the book written in as simple English as possible for people with English as a second language or just people that just don't feel like wading through a lot of phrasing to get to the information.

A few things happened since then: one, I got a full-time job as a Rust developer(!) here in Seoul in July. It's a securities trading startup: no blockchain or crypto, just a securities trading platform. None of the code is public so can't talk about that but it's a great bunch of people and I'm really enjoying being a developer for the first time. There's been a ton of new stuff to learn on top of just knowing Rust and the first few months were like drinking from a firehose in a very good way.

So anyway, my brother-in-law is a long-time pilates instructor who is a regional manager at one of the chains here. He knows zilch about computers (컴자도 모르는 컴맹 as we say in Korean - "doesn't even know the 'com' in computer) but decided that being a Rust developer would be really cool and up and bought the Korean version of the Book and a new laptop.

I got him set up on VS Code and gave him some advice for going through the Book but he said what he really wanted to see were videos in Korean, and that YouTube had pretty much nothing. He was right, as YouTube had maybe five videos on Rust in Korean. He's not the first person to ask me to make a Korean version but I had just assumed that Korean YouTube had enough content to learn it, and that turns out to not be the case, at all.

(That's sort of in character for Korea which tends to wait until something is really well entrenched abroad before going all in on it. Maybe this will help)

So two weeks ago I gave in and started recording the videos, and have done 15 so far. Working full time I can only record on the weekend but an average speed of one a day seems doable enough, and that means we should see one per day for the next six months or so until it reaches the end again. I'll also be making a number of changes as I go along to reflect changes in the language and adding things like async, which we use at work all the time. This time I'll also have a lot of videos on reading documentation since at the end of the day that involves a lot of parsing English and so it'll be focused on that aspect as well.

(Related news: Rust for Rustaceans is going to have a Korean version! Won't help my brother-in-law just yet but great news)

tl;dr my Korean brother-in-law convinced me to do this