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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789346572

Length 554 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

actix-web

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Vesa Kaihlavirta

Rahul Sharma

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Rust

2. Managing Projects with Cargo FREE CHAPTER

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

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Advanced Concepts

Quite a few concepts we learned in the previous chapters really deserve close attention so we can appreciate the design of Rust. Learning these advanced topics will also help you further when you need to understand complex code bases. These concepts are also helpful when you want to create libraries that provide idiomatic Rust APIs.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

Type system tidbits
Strings
Iterators
Closures
Modules

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Authors (2)

Sharma

Tushar Sharma has a master's degree specializing in data science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He works as a data scientist with Intel. In his previous job he used to work as a research engineer for a financial consultancy firm. His work involves handling big data at scale generated by the massive infrastructure at Intel. He engineers and delivers end to end solutions on this data using the latest machine learning tools and frameworks. He is proficient in R, Python, Spark, and mathematical aspects of machine learning among other things. Tushar has a keen interest in everything related to technology. He likes to read a wide array of books ranging from history to philosophy and beyond. He is a running enthusiast and likes to play badminton and tennis.

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Vesa Kaihlavirta

Vesa Kaihlavirta has been programming since he was five, beginning with C64 Basic. His main professional goal in life is to increase awareness of programming languages and software quality in all industries that use software. He's an Arch Linux Developer Fellow, and has been working in the telecom and financial industry for a decade. Vesa lives in Jyvaskyla, central Finland.

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