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Learning Rust

You're reading from   Learning Rust A comprehensive guide to writing Rust applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884306
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vesa Kaihlavirta Vesa Kaihlavirta
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing and Installing Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Variables 3. Input and Output 4. Conditions, Recursion, and Loops 5. Remember, Remember 6. Creating Your Own Rust Applications 7. Matching and Structures 8. The Rust Application Lifetime 9. Introducing Generics, Impl, and Traits 10. Creating Your Own Crate 11. Concurrency in Rust 12. Now It's Your Turn! 13. The Standard Library 14. Foreign Function Interfaces

What exactly is a crate?

As with all languages, Rust can use external libraries that, we've established are called crates. But what are they?

If we think about a crate, we think either of something we use to hold lots of other things. Software developers like to keep their code clean and if they know what they're doing, they tend to keep their libraries fairly specialized. These specialisms within a crate are known as modules.

A crate is a container with one or more modules within it.

Looking at modules

To show how crates are put together, we are going to create one. In this case, it will be a simple math crate.

Before we consider this, let's consider something we all know: a car. We will consider the car a...

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