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Rust Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Rust Programming Cookbook Explore the latest features of Rust 2018 for building fast and secure apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530667
Length 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting Off with Rust 2. Going Further with Advanced Rust FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Projects with Cargo 4. Fearless Concurrency 5. Handling Errors and Other Results 6. Expressing Yourself with Macros 7. Integrating Rust with Other Languages 8. Safe Programming for the Web 9. Systems Programming Made Easy 10. Getting Practical with Rust 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Shared mutable ownership

Sharing ownership is great for read-only data. However, mutability is sometimes required, and Rust provides a great way to achieve this. If you recall the rules of ownership and borrowing, if there is a mutable reference, it has to be the only reference to avoid anomalies.

This is typically where the borrow checker comes in: at compile time, it makes sure that the condition holds true. This is where Rust introduces the pattern of interior mutability. By wrapping the data into a RefCell or Cell-type object, immutable and mutable access can be handed out dynamically. Let's see how this works in practice.

Getting ready

Create a new library project using cargo new --lib mut-shared-ownership and open...

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Rust Programming Cookbook
Published in: Oct 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789530667
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