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Mastering Rust

You're reading from   Mastering Rust Learn about memory safety, type system, concurrency, and the new features of Rust 2018 edition

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346572
Length 554 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vesa Kaihlavirta Vesa Kaihlavirta
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Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Projects with Cargo 3. Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks 4. Types, Generics, and Traits 5. Memory Management and Safety 6. Error Handling 7. Advanced Concepts 8. Concurrency 9. Metaprogramming with Macros 10. Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces 11. Logging 12. Network Programming in Rust 13. Building Web Applications with Rust 14. Interacting with Databases in Rust 15. Rust on the Web with WebAssembly 16. Building Desktop Applications with Rust 17. Debugging 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a project with Cargo – imgtool

We now have a fairly good understanding of how to manage projects using Cargo. To drive the concepts in, we will build a command-line application that uses a third-party crate. The whole point of this exercise is to become familiar with the usual workflow of building projects by using third-party crates, so we're going to skip over a lot of details about the code we write here. You are encouraged to check out the documentation of the APIs that are used in the code, though.

We'll use a crate called image from crates.io. This crate provides various image manipulation APIs. Our command-line application will be simple; it will take a path to an image file as its argument, rotate it by 90 degrees, and write back to the same file, every time when run.

We'll cd into the imgtool directory, which we created previously. First...

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