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Rust Essentials

You're reading from   Rust Essentials A quick guide to writing fast, safe, and concurrent systems and applications

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Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788390019
Length 264 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ivo Balbaert Ivo Balbaert
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Preface 1. Starting with Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Variables and Types 3. Using Functions and Control Structures 4. Structuring Data and Matching Patterns 5. Higher Order Functions and Error-Handling 6. Using Traits and OOP in Rust 7. Ensuring Memory Safety and Pointers 8. Organizing Code and Macros 9. Concurrency - Coding for Multicore Execution 10. Programming at the Boundaries 11. Exploring the Standard Library 12. The Ecosystem of Crates

Installing Rust

You can install the Rust toolchain on every platform that Rust supports by using the rustup installer tool, which you can find at http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html.

On Windows, double-click on the rustup-init.exe file to install the Rust binaries and dependencies. Rust's installation directory (which by default is C:\Users\username\.cargo\bin) is automatically added to the search path for executables. Additionally you may need the C++ build tools for Visual Studio 2013 or later, which you can download from http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools.

On Linux and OS X, run the following command in your shell:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

This installs the Rust toolchain in /home/username/.cargo/bin by default.

Verify the correctness of the installation by showing Rust's version by typing rustc -V or rustc - -version in a console, which produces output like the following:

Rust can be uninstalled by running the following command:

rustup self uninstall  

The rustup tool enables you to easily switch between stable, beta, and nightly compilers and keep them updated. Moreover, it makes cross-compiling simpler with binary builds of the Standard Library for common platforms.

At https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html is a list of all the platforms on which Rust can run.

A bare metal stack called zinc for running Rust in embedded environments can be found at http://zinc.rs/; at this moment only the ARM architecture is supported.

The source code resides on GitHub (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/) and, if you want to build Rust from source, we refer you to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust#building-from-source.

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