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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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Product type Paperback
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

Calling Rust from other languages

Rust code can be called from any language that can call C. The Rust library should have the crate-type value "dylib". When rustfn1 is the Rust function to be called, this must be declared as:

    #[no_mangle]
    pub extern "C" fn rustfn1() { }  

#[no_mangle] serves to keep the function names plain and simple, so that they are easier to link to. The "C" exports the function to the outside world with the C calling convention.

Some examples to call Rust from C itself, Python, Haskell, and Node.js can be found in this article https://zsiciarz.github.io/24daysofrust/book/vol1/day23.html. How to call Rust from Perl and Julia is detailed at http://paul.woolcock.us/posts/rust-perl-julia-ffi.html.

For a nice collection of examples, see http://jakegoulding.com/rust-ffi-omnibus/.
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