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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Rust Standard Library Cookbook Over 75 recipes to leverage the power of Rust

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623926
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Learning the Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Collections 3. Handling Files and the Filesystem 4. Serialization 5. Advanced Data Structures 6. Handling Errors 7. Parallelism and Rayon 8. Working with Futures 9. Networking 10. Using Experimental Nightly Features 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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JSON was created at a time when most web communication was done by sending XML over browser plugins such as Java or Flash. This was cumbersome and made the exchanged information quite bloated. Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSLint and author of the famous JavaScript: The Good Parts, decided in the early 2000s that it was time for a lightweight format that was easily integrated with JavaScript. He oriented himself on a small subset of JavaScript, namely the way it defined objects, and extended it a little bit to form the JavaScript Object Notation or JSON. Yes, you've read that right; JSON is not a subset of JavaScript, as it accepts things that JavaScript doesn't. You can read more about that at http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset.

The sad irony of the story is that today we have gone full-circle: our best practices for web development include a labyrinth of task runners, frameworks, and transpilers, which are all quite nice in theory...
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